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The US public has been led to believe that Social Security is going bankrupt and that our children will be burdened with supporting the elderly unless it is reformed. Benavie will refute these arguments. While it is true that our public pension system can be improved, this book will separate the widely accepted economic facts of the issue from personal value judgements. This book is an invaluable guide to understanding and making informed decisions...
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"How Social Security has shaped American politics--and why it faces insolvency. Since its establishment, Social Security has become the financial linchpin of American retirement. Yet demographic trends--longer lifespans and declining birthrates--mean that this popular program now pays more in benefits than it collects in revenue. Without reforms, 83 million Americans will face an immediate benefit cut of 20 percent in 2034. How did we get here and...
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The People's Pension is both groundbreaking history and an indispensable guide for anyone concerned about one of the biggest issues in the upcoming election. With 95 percent of Americans participating in the program either as beneficiaries or through their payroll tax contributions, Social Security is quite literally the "glue" that binds Americans together as a community. Yet in the aftermath of the debt reduction deal between Barack Obama and congressional...
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Confused or uncertain about Social Security? This friendly, easy-to-understand guide cuts through the complexities and gives you the practical information you need to make the most of the program and make smart decisions about retirement. You'll find advice on when to start collecting benefits, get the facts on working in retirement, learn how potential changes could affect you, and see how Social Security fits into your plan for economic security....
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Teresa Ghilarducci, after having taught economics for twenty-five years at the University of Notre Dame, now holds the Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Chair of Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research. She is also the 2006-2008 Wurf Fellow at Harvard Law School. Her books include Labor's Capital: The Economics and Politics of Private Pensions.
A crisis is looming for baby boomers and anyone else who hopes to retire in the coming...
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Edwin Amenta is professor of sociology and history at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Professor Baseball and Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy (Princeton).
When Movements Matter accounts for the origins of Social Security as we know it. The book tells the overlooked story of the Townsend Plan--a political organization that sought to alleviate poverty and end the Great Depression...
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The United States faces a serious retirement challenge. Many of today's workers will lack the resources to retire at traditional ages and maintain their standard of living in retirement. Solving the problem is a major challenge in today's environment in which risk and responsibility have shifted from government and employers to individuals. For this reason, Charles D. Ellis, Alicia H. Munnell, and Andrew D. Eschtruth have written this concise guide...
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The practical, nonpartisan guide to making our retirement savings systems work for America's people, our economy, and the nation at large. At a time of fierce political divisiveness, From Here to Security is a refreshingly balanced, non-ideological guide to solving what may be our nation's most pressing policy challenge: achieving retirement security for all. A pioneer of the 401(k) system, Robert L. Reynolds eschews radical calls for throwing out...
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Federal entitlement programs are strewn throughout the pages of U.S. history, springing from the noble purpose of assisting people who are destitute through no fault of their own. Yet as federal entitlement programs have grown, so too have their inefficiency and their cost. Neither tax revenues nor revenues generated by the national economy have been able to keep pace with their rising growth, bringing the national debt to a record peace-time level....
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Social Security is the largest government program in the world. But it is also a deeply troubled one, on the verge of financial collapse. Within 15 years Social Security will begin running a deficit. Overall, the program is more than $26 trillion in debt. Without fundamental reform it will not be able to pay the benefits it has promised to our children and grandchildren. That has prompted the most far-reaching discussion of the purpose and structure...
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This book looks at both the Republican and the Democratic Party plans for Social Security, showing how each confronts significant ideological and political hurdles. David Koitz cuts through the partisan rhetoric that has made social Security one of the most debated programs on the U.S. political scene and looks at both the Republican and the Democratic plans for Social Security, showing important flaws in each.
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En el manejo cotidiano del recurso humano, con frecuencia se presentan conflictos que exigen un soporte cada vez más amplio e idóneo que los corrija y evite efectos perturbadores en esa esfera de compromisos y obligaciones mutuas que es el mundo del trabajo. Esta obra, dirigida a los profesionales encargados de la administración del recurso humano y liquidación de nómina del sector privado, consta de 15 capítulos que abordan temas como Contratación,...
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Muerto Verhaeren, quedó Maeterlinck el más alto exponente de la literatura belga, escribe Ramón Vinyes en Colombia en 1940, cuando Maurice Maeterlinck debe abandonar Bélgica: "Hitler me hubiera fusilado", asegura a sus 78 años, obligado a "rehacer su vida en tierra extraña", dice Vinyes, lleno de admiración por este "hombre glorioso", enfrentado al exilio.
Solo dos críticos literarios respetó, admiró y quiso Gabriel García Márquez, "don...
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Este libro reúne estudios psicoanalíticos de caso en los que se interpreta material fenomenológico a la luz del pensamiento teórico de la escuela neokleiniana. La primera parte presenta doce casos de adultos, adolescentes y niños en los que se exploran algunas perturbaciones en el desarrollo psíquico de las dimensiones estructural, dinámica, económica, genética, geográfica y epistemológica desarrolladas por Freud, Klein, Bion y Meltzer....
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Las tensiones que emergen entre la libertad y la psicología generan dinámicas y movimientos que permiten, genealógicamente, comprender diversas trayectorias y emergencias, procedencias y búsquedas cuya complejidad mantiene una permanente invitación a la investigación, a la reflexión y a la transformación. La práctica educativa, asumida como ejercicio de la libertad, al mejor estilo del formador brasilero Paulo Freire, parece ser la razón...
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Until now, there has never been a comprehensive, easy-to-understand handbook for federal employees and retirees that fully explains not only Social Security and Medicare but also how they dovetail (and, in some cases, conflict) with the federal government's retirement and health insurance programs.
Social Security and Medicare are easily the two most misunderstood benefits that federal employees, postal workers and retirees have, but it's...
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El libro está dirigido a estudiantes de Trabajo Social que requieran adquirir, reforzar o consolidar conocimientos que son básicos para su trayecto formativo en la profesión. Éste incluye temas que transversalmente pueden ser útiles en las asignaturas del actual Plan de Estudios 1996 y Plan de Estudios 2020 de la licenciatura de Trabajo Social.
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Exploring the lived realities of both poverty and prosperity in the UK, this book examines the material and symbolic significance of welfare austerity and its implications for social citizenship and inequality. The book offers a rare and vivid insight into the everyday lives, attitudes and behaviours of the rich as well as the poor, demonstrating how those marginalized and validated by the existing welfare system make sense of the prevailing socio-political...
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