Rescuing Retirement: A Plan to Guarantee Retirement Security for All Americans

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$24.95  $23.20
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Columbia University Press
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Pages
184
Dimensions
5.8 X 8.6 X 1.1 inches | 0.8 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780231185646

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About the Author
Teresa Ghilarducci is the Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of Economics and Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research, director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, and director of the New School's Retirement Equity Lab. She is the author of When I'm Sixty-Four: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them (2008) and How to Retire with Enough Money: And How to Know What Enough Is (2015).

Tony James is executive vice chairman of the Blackstone Group and a member of Blackstone's board of directors. He previously served as Blackstone's president and chief operating officer.
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Ghilarducci and James aim to eliminate the retirement savings gap for those earning under $100,000 through affordable, low-fee, mandatory accounts with automatic annuitization. The pairing of an expert retirement economist and a financial hotshot has produced an innovative approach to this critical policy challenge. We need every idea we can get!--Alicia Munnell, director, Center for Retirement Research, Boston College
Retiring with dignity shouldn't be out of reach for so many Americans. Tony James and Teresa Ghilarducci's plan is a bold and innovative fix to our broken retirement system.--Chris Nassetta, president and CEO of Hilton Worldwide
Finally, a practical plan to address Americans' lack of adequate retirement savings. This silent crisis, if not solved, will slow growth, challenge budgets, and hurt households across the United States. Teresa Ghilarducci and Tony James are proposing a smarter, more cost-effective way of securing the retirements of all Americans. This plan is critical to warding off a looming retirement savings crisis.--Michael Bloomberg
In the face of a daunting national crisis, Tony James and Teresa Ghilarducci have proposed a practical bipartisan solution that deserves the attention of business leaders, policy makers, and legislators.--Jim Sinegal, cofounder and former CEO of Costco
All workers should have the same retirement security and peace of mind that teachers, police officers, firefighters, and other public employees have earned and have fought hard to maintain. Ghilarducci and James's plan for universal, prefunded, secure-for-life pensions--supplements to Social Security--is a great exemplar of how to achieve a secure retirement.--Randi Weingarten, president, American Federation of Teachers
Ghilarducci and James never slip into wonk-speak or jargon, and lay readers will appreciate the way the authors make sense of complex economic issues.--Publishers Weekly
The argument is clearly made and succinctly presented. Highly recommended.--Choice
Rescuing Retirement presents a thoughtful and compelling view of how the current retirement system is failing our people--and offers a thought-provoking, pragmatic approach to substantially enhancing retirement security for every American.--Robert Rubin, seventieth U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Rescuing Retirement is an explicit call to action aimed directly at those with the greatest stake in the problem--the millions of workers, employers, and policy makers whose lives will be affected by the actions (or inaction) of today's stakeholders.--Stephanie Kelton, author of The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
For more than three decades, the economist Teresa Ghilarducci, who specializes in retirement economics and policy, has documented this disaster for working people and the crisis it has precipitated, most recently in Rescuing Retirement.--Caitlin Zaloom "New York Review of Books "