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Before the swindle -- A fix for what wasn't broken -- Army tanks and think tanks -- Targeting social security and public worker pensions -- How 404(k)s are supposed to work and why they don't -- A model unravels -- Turmoil in the land of steady habit -- What we can do. |
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How 401(k)s have gutted retirement security, from charging exorbitant hidden fees to failing to replace the income of traditional pensions Each generation of workers since the nineteenth century has had more retirement security than the previous generation. That is, until 1981, when 401(k)s began replacing traditional pensions. For the last thirty years, we've been advised that the best way to build one's nest egg is to invest in 401(k)-type programs. This financial experiment, promoted by neoliberals and Wall Street, has come full circle, with tens of millions of Americans now discovering that they would have been better off under traditional pension plans long since replaced. As James W. Russell explains, this do-it-yourself pension system'in which individuals with modest incomes are expected to invest large sums of capital in order to reap the same results as professional high-end money managers'isn't working. Social Insecurity tells the story of a massive and international retirement robbery'from its ideological origins in Milton Friedman's infamous Chicago School to its implementation in Chile under Pinochet's dictatorship and adoption in America via Reaganomics. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Before the swindle -- A fix for what wasn't broken -- Army tanks and think tanks -- Targeting social security and public worker pensions -- How 401(k)s are supposed to work and why they don't -- A model unravels -- Turmoil in the land of steady habits -- What we can do. |
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401(k) plans.
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Pensions -- United States.
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Social security -- United States.
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Business.
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401(k) plans. |
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Business. |
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Pensions. |
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Social security. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books. |
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Russell, James W., 1944- Social insecurity Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, 2013 9780807012567 (DLC) 2013043335 (OCoLC)852823823 |
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9780807012574 : $26.95 |
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0807012572 : $26.95 |
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