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Charles Blahous, one of the nation's foremost retirement security experts, explains the origins and dangers of current underfunding in our single-employer defined-benefit pension system and outlines the options for solving the problem and preventing the next taxpayer-financed bailout. He provides a tutorial on the basic workings of pension law, reviews the recent history that led to the worsening condition of the pension insurance system, and suggests...
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In this thought-provoking book, Paul Spicker challenges readers to rethink social security benefits in Britain. Putting a case for reform of the system, Spicker argues that most of the criticisms made of social security benefits – that spending is out of control, that it has led to mushrooming dependency, that it fails to get people into work, and that the system is riddled with fraud – are misconceived. Addressing those misconceptions, Spicker...
23) Agrarian Justice
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Paine advocates the use of taxation to fund a universal old age and disability pension, as well as a fixed sum to be, paid to all citizens on reaching maturity.
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Andrea Louise Campbell is Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy at Yale University from 2001-2003.
Some groups participate in politics more than others. Why? And does it matter for policy outcomes? In this richly detailed and fluidly written book, Andrea Campbell argues that democratic participation and public policy powerfully reinforce each other. Through a case study of...
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Si bien existen experiencias y políticas puntuales que emergieron desde los años 90 en algunas ciudades, ningún gobierno ha construido en forma sustentable y sistemática una política al respecto. Solo existen algunas medidas de prevención situacional y una agenda marcada por el populismo punitivo que asumen que la represión policial, a menudo en contradicción con los derechos humanos, es la mejor receta contra el crimen o por lo menos la que...
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La restricción, exclusión y limitación del ejercicio pleno de derechos continúa siendo una realidad para distintos sectores de la población en México. Distinguida con la obtención de un premio como mejor tesis, esta obra propone un análisis descriptivo-interpretativo respecto a las condiciones de discriminación estructural en que se coloca a las personas debido a la suposición o existencia de un diagnóstico relativo a su salud mental, y...
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A former Social Security Administration (SSA) attorney goes behind the scenes to show you why it's so difficult to win a Social Security Disability case. Working as an Attorney Advisor for over 10 years, the author drafted and reviewed thousands of disability decisions. During this time, he learned why the system is stacked against the claimant throughout the process. After he left SSA, he wanted to make this knowledge available to everyone.
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La persistencia de la desigualdad en América Latina, y en particular en el Perú, se comprende mejor si se analiza la situación de pobreza dentro de su marco histórico cultural. Desde la década de 1990 la inclusión ha adquirido relevancia como un problema de fondo en la lucha contra la pobreza que debe ser tomado en cuenta en el diseño de las políticas sociales.
Esta perspectiva nos ha llevado a entenderla como un proceso complejo y plural,...
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When it comes to security, in reality, self-interests is the driver, and not interests for others. Thus, we are all working for self-survival not for the survival for others. However, we survive because of others. Without others, we have no self-interests, and our self-interests is rooted from others. Consequentially we need security to protect our self-interests, but we should not forget that our security is rooted from others' security. Therefore,...
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This publication records the proceedings of the Second Regional Workshop on Strengthening Country Safeguard Systems: Towards Common Approaches for Better Results held at Asian Development Bank headquarters in Manila on 7–9 October 2014. The workshop had three objectives: (i) Provide an opportunity to reflect on achievements across the region and share innovations in safeguard policies and their implementation in the region and beyond; (ii) Improve...
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An integrated national identification (ID) system offers a means to fast-track the development process by providing the most efficient way to identify people in developing countries. This report seeks to help governments assess the maturity of a country's ID system and integrate it with development activities. A maturity model for a country's ID management is developed and applied to seven countries in Asia to assess the maturity of their ID systems....
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The US public has been led to believe that Social Security is going bankrupt and that our children will be burdened with supporting the elderly unless it is reformed. Benavie will refute these arguments. While it is true that our public pension system can be improved, this book will separate the widely accepted economic facts of the issue from personal value judgements. This book is an invaluable guide to understanding and making informed decisions...
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Find Out if an SMSF is Right for You Are you thinking about setting up a self managed superannuation fund but unsure where to start? Are you worried that you're not maximising all the benefits an SMSF offers? In Securing Your Superannuation Future, Daryl Dixon offers practical, easy-to-understand tools and strategies to help you set up and run your own super fund. More Australians than ever are deciding to take control of their super, and Daryl's...
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This publication suggests solutions that can be built into the design of urban development projects undertaken by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to address the common problems and grievances of the urban poor, and to improve urban governance overall. It also identifies successful or promising community-based approaches to dispute resolution that can be useful in urban project design. It uses ADB's Governance policy as a framework for analyzing key...
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The must-read summary of Joe Conason's book: "The Raw Deal: How Bush Republicans Plan to Destroy Social Security and the Legacy of the New Deal".
This complete summary of "The Raw Deal" by Joe Conason, an American journalist and political commentator, presents his examination of the Social Security system, the Bush Republicans' proposed reforms and Americans' response to these proposals. He explains how Bush favours privatization and corporate interests,...
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Edwin Amenta is professor of sociology and history at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Professor Baseball and Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy (Princeton).
When Movements Matter accounts for the origins of Social Security as we know it. The book tells the overlooked story of the Townsend Plan--a political organization that sought to alleviate poverty and end the Great Depression...
39) Social Security Works For Everyone!: Protecting and Expanding America's Most Popular Social Program
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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)
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...
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This report provides insights to investors keen to invest in the region, financial intermediaries that advise social enterprises (SEs) on capital raising, and developers of platforms seeking to connect SEs in the region with impact investors. Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX), an SE based in Singapore, is applying the final outputs of this research as it finalizes the operating features of Asia's first social stock exchange, which it is creating....
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