Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and PensionsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pension trusts
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Protecting the Pensions of Working Americans
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and PensionsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pension trusts
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Health and Safety Needs of Older Workers
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030909111X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Mirroring a worldwide phenomenon in industrialized nations, the U.S. is experiencing a change in its demographic structure known as population aging. Concern about the aging population tends to focus on the adequacy of Medicare and Social Security, retirement of older Americans, and the need to identify policies, programs, and strategies that address the health and safety needs of older workers. Older workers differ from their younger counterparts in a variety of physical, psychological, and social factors. Evaluating the extent, causes, and effects of these factors and improving the research and data systems necessary to address the health and safety needs of older workers may significantly impact both their ability to remain in the workforce and their well being in retirement. Health and Safety Needs of Older Workers provides an image of what is currently known about the health and safety needs of older workers and the research needed to encourage social polices that guarantee older workers a meaningful share of the nation's work opportunities.
A History of Public Sector Pensions in the United States
Author: Robert Louis ClarkPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812237146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
From the Wharton School, offering a comprehensive assessment of the political and financial dimensions of public-sector pensions from the colonial period until the emergence of modern retirement plans in the twentieth century.
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers
Author: Theda SkocpolPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674043723
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 737
Book Description
It is a commonplace that the United States lagged behind the countries of Western Europe in developing modern social policies. But, as Theda Skocpol shows in this startlingly new historical analysis, the United States actually pioneered generous social spending for many of its elderly, disabled, and dependent citizens. During the late nineteenth century, competitive party politics in American democracy led to the rapid expansion of benefits for Union Civil War veterans and their families. Some Americans hoped to expand veterans' benefits into pensions for all of the needy elderly and social insurance for workingmen and their families. But such hopes went against the logic of political reform in the Progressive Era. Generous social spending faded along with the Civil War generation. Instead, the nation nearly became a unique maternalist welfare state as the federal government and more than forty states enacted social spending, labor regulations, and health education programs to assist American mothers and children. Remarkably, as Skocpol shows, many of these policies were enacted even before American women were granted the right to vote. Banned from electoral politics, they turned their energies to creating huge, nation-spanning federations of local women's clubs, which collaborated with reform-minded professional women to spur legislative action across the country. Blending original historical research with political analysis, Skocpol shows how governmental institutions, electoral rules, political parties, and earlier public policies combined to determine both the opportunities and the limits within which social policies were devised and changed by reformers and politically active social groups over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By examining afresh the institutional, cultural, and organizational forces that have shaped U.S. social policies in the past, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers challenges us to think in new ways about what might be possible in the American future.
Protecting America's Pensions Act of 2002
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and PensionsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : 401(k) plans
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Pension Book
Author: Karen FergusonPublisher: Arcade Publishing
ISBN: 9781559703314
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Every pension plan has its fine print. Using case studies from the Pension Rights Center, Ferguson and Blackwell show what everyone in a private plan needs to know: how and when their pension will vest; how much their benefit will be; and whether it is adjusted for inflation. Is the plan overfunded or underfunded? Will it survive should the company change hands or go bankrupt? And what happens in the event of death or divorce? Each chapter tackling these subjects is followed by a "What to Do" section in which the authors demonstrate, point by point, how we can take charge of our retirement future. No retirement plan? You're not alone. Half of all Americans have no plan other than social security, and this venerable system - never intended to cover all retirement needs - typically pays people 40 percent of what they were earning when they worked. Or maybe you're in a do-it-yourself savings plan. Increasingly, employers are substituting these plans for traditional pensions. Again, Ferguson and Blackwell provide practical suggestions and reliable advice about the pros and cons of IRAs, 401(k)s, and the other tax-sheltered savings arrangements.
Social Security
Author: Larry W. DeWittPublisher: CQ Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
A Documentary History tells the story of the creation and development of the U.S. Social Security program through primary source documents, from its antecendents and founding in 1935, to the controversial issues of the present. This unique reference presents the complex history of Social Security in an accessible volume that highlights the program's major moments and events.
Pensions at a Glance 2019 OECD and G20 Indicators
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264876103
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The 2019 edition of Pensions at a Glance highlights the pension reforms undertaken by OECD countries over the last two years. Moreover, two special chapters focus on non-standard work and pensions in OECD countries, take stock of different approaches to organising pensions for non-standard workers in the OECD, discuss why non-standard work raises pension issues and suggest how pension settings could be improved.
The Betrayal of the American Dream
Author: Donald L. BarlettPublisher: Public Affairs
ISBN: 1586489690
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Examines the formidable challenges facing the middle class, calling for fundamental changes while surveying the extent of the problem and identifying the people and agencies most responsible.
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