Retirement Security
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Key TCF Publications
Additional Resources
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Policy for a Secure Retirement
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Bernard Wasow,
The Century Foundation,
5/5/2004
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Will the three main sources of retirement income—private pensions, private saving, and Social Security—add up to enough to assure Americans of the retirement they have come to expect?
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Promoting Retirement Savings
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Bernard Wasow,
The Century Foundation,
2/6/2004
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The Bush administration's proposals to restructure tax breaks for private saving in the 2005 budget plan are using the legitimate need for reforms as a subterfuge for pursuing a policy that will leave the current system’s fundamental problems unsolved.
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The Risky Business of Retirement
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Richard C. Leone,
The American Prospect,
5/1/2003
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Americans are facing a lot more risk these days, particularly when it comes to retirement.
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Retirement Insecurity
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Edward N. Wolff,
Economic Policy Institute,
5/1/2002
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Today's older workers will live longer and spend more time in retirement than workers in any previous generation. Will households have enough income to afford a decent standard of living in retirement?
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Link to Book Excerpt
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True Security: Rethinking American Social Insurance
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Michael J. Graetz,
Jerry L. Mashaw,
Yale University Press,
10/1/1999
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Social insurance in the United States--including the Social Security Act of 1935 and the Medicare, Medicaid, and disability insurance programs that were added later--may be the greatest triumph of American domestic policy. But true security has not been achieved.
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