Written by noted experts in the field, Wealth After Work presents proposals to show how policymakers can help all Americans gain access to retirement savings accounts, obtain better information about their savings choices, and better manage their wealth in retirement.
Directed to a general audience interested in America's economic future~Written by one of the leading centrist economists in the United States~Addresses how all of the most important elements of U.S. federal government tax and expenditure policy should be reformed in order to resolve the long-term gap between expected future government spending and tax revenues
The private pension system, together with Social Security, has provided millions of Americans with income security in retirement. But over the past thirty years, pension coverage has stagnated, leaving behind some vulnerable groups. "Private Pensions and Public Policies" sheds timely and much-needed light on specific issues within the broader context and framework of pension reform.
Although estate and gift taxes raise a small fraction of federal revenues, they have become sources of increasing political controversy. This book is designed to inform the current policy debate and build a conceptual basis for future scholarship.
Explains the scope and nature of the deficit problem facing the United States and offers sensible, balanced, workable solutions drawing on national history, the experiences of other countries, and economic analysis.
Designed to reach a wide audience of scholars and policymakers, this new series contains studies on urban sprawl, crime, taxes, education, poverty, and related subjects.
Subscribe to "Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs" Designed to reach a wide audience of scholars and policymakers, this series contains studies on urban sprawl, crime, taxes, education, poverty, and related subjects.
Subscribe to "Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs" Designed to reach a wide audience of scholars and policymakers, this new series contains studies on urban sprawl, crime, taxes, education, poverty, and related subjects.
Subscribe to "Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs" Designed to reach a wide audience of scholars and policymakers, each issue of this new series contains cutting-edge, accessible studies on urban sprawl, crime, taxes, education, poverty, and related subjects.
The Evolving Pension System" examines the foundations and the future of the private pension system. It provides a broad overview of the underlying assumptions, characteristics, and effects of existing pension policy, as well as alternative views on how public policy toward pensions should evolve in the future.
The private pension system, together with Social Security, has provided millions of Americans with income security in retirement. But over the past thirty years, pension coverage has stagnated, leaving behind some vulnerable groups.