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  • Social Security Works!

    Protecting and Expanding America’s Most Popular Social Program

    by Nancy J. Altman, Eric Kingson ...
    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 authorThe COVID-19 crisis has pulled the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Security Works for Everyone!

    Protecting and Expanding the Insurance Americans Love and Count On

    by Nancy J. Altman, Eric R. Kingson ...
    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 authorThe COVID-19 crisis has pulled the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Social Security Works!

    Why Social Security Isn't Going Broke and How Expanding It Will Help Us All

    by Nancy Altman, Eric Kingson ...
    Narrated by Joyce Bean ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 24 min

    A growing chorus of prominent voices in Congress and elsewhere are calling for the expansion of our Social Security system—people who know that Social Security will not “go broke” and does not add a penny to the national debt. Social Security Works! will amplify these voices and offer a powerful antidote to the three-decade-long, billionaire-funded campaign to make us believe that this vital ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Inflation

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  • A Capitalism for the People

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    Born in Italy, University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales witnessed firsthand the consequences of high inflation and unemployment -- paired with rampant nepotism and cronyism -- on a country's economy. This experience profoundly shaped his professional interests, and in 1988 he arrived in the United States, armed with a political passion and the belief that economists should not merely ... Read more

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  • Expand Social Security Now!

    How to Ensure Americans Get the Retirement They Deserve

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  • Fiscal Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa in Response to the Impact of the Global Crisis

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