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United States

In: Extended Working Life Policies

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  • Debra Street

    (The State University of New York at Buffalo)

Abstract

For decades, American discourse about the future of SocialSocial security SecuritySecurity has trumped meaningful discussion of extending working lives. Similar to patterns of public debatePublic debate and policymaking elsewhere, in the USUnited States (US) pensions and delayed retirementDelayed retirement has received most of the policy focus with relatively little attention paid to the gendered structure of the USUnited States (US) labour market, and the systematic disadvantagesDisadvantage built into its retirementRetirement income incomeIncome retirement/pension regime. Nor have debates come to grips with the real likelihood as opposed to imagined potential for most older Americans remain employed longer, given the mismatch between available jobs andWorker older older workers’Older workers skills, their physical capacities, and competing family careCaring, care, caregiving responsibilitiesCare responsibilities . Complicating the USUnited States (US) context further is the sheer complexity arising from significant regional differences in employment prospects, interactions between federal and state policies that shape employment and retirement outcomes, and the very exceptional character of USUnited States (US) healthHealth insuranceHealth insurance arrangements to contend with, all within an ageist and age-denying culture. This chapter explores why there has been little debate and no consensusConsensus in USUnited States (US) policymaking about how to expand good employment opportunities that could help Americans to extend their working lives, but plenty about raising retirement agesRetirement age(s) and contribution levels for SocialSocial security SecuritySecurity .

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  • Debra Street, 2020. "United States," Springer Books, in: Áine Ní Léime & Jim Ogg & Martina Rašticová & Debra Street & Clary Krekula & Monika Bédiová & Ignaci (ed.), Extended Working Life Policies, chapter 39, pages 481-493, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-40985-2_39
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-40985-2_39
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