Aging Nation: The Economics and Politics of Growing Older in America Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 2008-04-01
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0801888646
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Aging Nation pdf
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With the impending retirement of some 76 million baby boomers in a period of huge government deficits, public anxiety about the social and economic health of an aging nation is widespread. The policy debates are contentious—from deciding who should receive limited subsidized housing and medical services to the ongoing battle over "saving" Social Security and other entitlement programs. Some policy makers and pundits forecast disaster: elderly people will be put out to pasture with inadequate health care and financial resources, and a crumbling social welfare infrastructure will implode under the strain of intergenerational conflict. In Aging Nation, renowned experts James H. Schulz and Robert H. Binstock agree that there is considerable cause for concern but insist that a demographic tsunami is not inevitable. Drawing from the most current data, the authors provide an in-depth analysis of the nation's evolving private and public policies on retirement, faltering employer pensions, h Download Aging Nation for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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