Social security works for everyone! Protecting and expanding the insurance Americans love and count on
Book - 2021
"Presents the case for expanding Social Security, explaining why monthly benefits need to be increased, and why Americans need national paid family leave, sick leave, and long term care protections"--
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- Genres
- Instructional and educational works
- Published
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New York, NY :
The New Press
2021.
- Language
- English
- Item Description
- "Updated with a bold expansion plan"--Cover.
Previous edition published by The New Press in 2015 as Social security works! Why social security isn't going broke and how expanding it will help us all. - Physical Description
- xvii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781620976227
1620976226 - Main Author
- Other Authors
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"Presents the case for expanding Social Security, explaining why monthly benefits need to be increased, and why Americans need national paid family leave, sick leave, and long term care protections"--
Review by Publisher Summary 2The authors eloquently make the case that Social Security works because it embodies the best of American values—the ones that will allow Americans to obtain financial security and weather the next crisis. Original. 15,000 first printing.
Review by Publisher Summary 3
Social Security expansion is back on the agenda, at a time when Americans need it more than ever—here's what it should look like (and why it matters to everyday people all over the country)
“Altman and Kingson cut through the fog of calculated confusion and outright lies about Social Security.”—David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author
The COVID-19 crisis has pulled the curtain back on America's looming retirement income crisis, a fraying of the national community, and ever-worsening income inequality. Never before have so many people's livelihoods and futures been thrown into flux. Now more than ever, expanding Social Security is essential to addressing these challenges. Social Security Works for Everyone!, an evolution of the argument Nancy J. Altman and Eric R. Kingson made in their acclaimed first book, Social Security Works!, presents the case for expanding Social Security, explaining why monthly benefits need to be increased; why Americans need national paid family leave, sick leave, and long term care protections; and how we can pay for it all. Don't believe the nearly four-decade, billionaire-funded campaign to convince us that the program is destined to collapse. It isn't.
At a time when growing numbers of Americans are seeing beyond the false choice between financial security for working people and financial security for the federal government, this book eloquently makes the case that universal programs that benefit all Americans (yes, even the rich) make our country stronger and our lives more secure. Social Security works because it embodies the best of American values—the ones that will allow Americans to obtain financial security and weather the next crisis.