When I'm sixty-four : the plot against pensions and the plan to save them / Teresa Ghilarducci.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. The attack on retirement. -- Hope for retirement's future -- The collapse of retirement income -- When bad things happen to good pensions -- promises get broken -- Do-it-yourself pensions -- The future of Social Security -- pt. 2. What is good about America's retirement income security system. -- The short history of old age leisure in America -- The distribution of retirement time : who really gets to retire? -- Working : the new retirement's effect on the economy -- pt. 3. The rescue plan for retirement. -- The American labor movement : advocating retirement and obtaining pensions -- Rescue plan for American workers' retirement : averting the end of retirement.

A crisis is looming for baby boomers and anyone else who hopes to retire in the coming years. In When I'm Sixty-Four, Teresa Ghilarducci, the nation's leading authority on the economics of retirement, explains how to confront this crisis head-on, revealing the causes behind the increasingly precarious economics of old age in America and proposing a bold plan to guarantee retirement security for every working citizen. Retirement is one of the hallmarks of a prosperous, civilized market economy. Yet in America today Social Security is on the ropes. Government and employers are dismantling pension.

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