Roger Lowenstein

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 Unabridged edition

In While America Aged, bestselling author Roger Lowenstein explains how corporations and governments ran up ruinous pension and health-care promises to workerspromises that are now coming due and that will hit America like a tsunami if nothing is done. Negotiating high benefits means gambling with future financesand when the farm gets sold out from underneath major corporations or public institutions, it affects all of us, and in ways we might not imagine. With his trademark narrative panache, Lowenstein unravels the truth about how pensions work in America and illuminates the impending crisis.