While America aged [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] how pension debts ruined General Motors, stopped the NYC subways, bankrupted San Diego, and loom as the next financial crisis / Roger Lowenstein.
Publication Info.
[North Kingstown, R.I.] : BBC Audiobooks America, 2008.
Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 132623 KB).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Note
Downloadable audio file.
Title from: Title details screen.
Unabridged.
Duration: 9:13:41.
Performer
Read by Michael McConnohie.
Summary
In while America aged, bestselling author Roger Lowenstein explains how corporations and governments ran up ruinous pension and health-care promises to workers-promises that are now coming due and that will hit America like a tsunami if nothing is done. Negotiating high benefits means gambling with future finances--and when the farm gets sold out from underneath major corporations or public institutions, it affects all of us, and in ways we might not imagine. With his trademark narrative panache, Lowenstein unravels the truth about how pensions work in America and illuminates the impending crisis.