Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy Ghilarducci

Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780226831466,0226831469

Product details:

• ISBN 10: 0226831469
• ISBN 13:  9780226831466
• Author:Teresa Ghilarducci
  

While the French went on strike in 2023 to protest the increase in the national retirement age, workers in the United States have all but given up on the notion of dignified retirement for all. Instead, Americans—whose elders face the highest risk of poverty compared to workers in peer nations—are fed feel-good stories about Walmart clerks who can finally retire because a customer raised the necessary funds through a GoFundMe campaign.

Many argue that the solution to the financial straits of American retirement is simple: people need to just work longer. Yet this call to work longer is misleading in a multitude of ways, including its endangering of the health of workers and its discrimination against people who work in lower-wage occupations. In Work, Retire, Repeat, Teresa Ghilarducci tells the stories of elders locked into jobs—not because they love to work but because they must.

Table contents:

Part I: How the Working-Longer Consensus Made the Retirement Crises Worse
1. The Erosion of Retirement and the Rise of Retirement Inequality
2. The Shift to Retirement Insecurity
Part II: The Hidden Costs of Working Longer
3. Working Longer Is Often Not a Choice
4. Working Longer Can Harm Your Health
5. Working Longer Creates Unequal Retirement Time
6. Working Longer Does Little to Improve Retirement Security
7. When Older Workers Lose, All Workers Lose
8. The High Cost of Bad Pensions
Part III: The Gray New Deal
9. Good Jobs for Older Workers
10. Creating Better Pensions

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