 |
|
|
|
|
While America Aged |
|
|
How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis
Roger Lowenstein - Author
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Book: Paperback | 8.26 x 5.23in | 288 pages | ISBN 9780143115380 | 28 Apr 2009 | Penguin | 18 - AND UP |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The retirement crisis facing America—and the road map for a way out—from The New York Times bestselling author of Origins of the Crash
In the last several decades, corporations and local governments made ruinous pension and healthcare promises to American workers. With these now coming due, they threaten to destroy twenty-first- century America’s hopes for a comfortable retirement. With his trademark narrative panache, bestselling author Roger Lowenstein analyzes three fascinating case studies—General Motors, the New York City subway system, and the city of San Diego—each an object lesson and a compelling historical saga that illuminates how the pension crisis developed. Cumulative retirement deficits are approaching $1 trillion, and Lowenstein warns that these are only the first. Retirement pensions will continue to be a critical issue as the country ages, and While America Aged is the urgent call to action and prescription for reform.
While America Aged
Introduction
Part One: Who Owns General Motors?
1. Walter Reuther and the Treaty of Detroit
2. The Anti-Reuther
Part Two: The Public Freight
3. An Entitled Class
4. On Strike!
Part Three: Debacle in San Diego
5. Finest City
6. Pension Plot
7. The Bill Comes Due
Conclusion: The Way Out
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
“ Financial journalist Roger Lowenstein uses the stories of three deeply encumbered institutions . . . as examples not only of the way most individual Americans conduct their personal finances, but also of how the country as a whole has long lived beyond its means. . . . Gripping.”
—Phillip Longman, The Washington Post
|
|
|
Email Alerts
To keep up-to-date, input your email address, and we will contact you on publication
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Get original video and audio series and read extended excerpts from your favorite authors. Learn more here »
|
|
Download the Penguin App for iPhones and get exclusive excerpts and access to the blog, podcast and more. Click here for information.
|
|
|
|
