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Posted on July 05, 2008

Peter Gosselin's new book describes the increased turbulence faced by families due to a decades-long erosion of the corporate and social safety net :What Safety Net?, by Noam Scheiber, Book Review, NY Times: ...George W. Bush's convention speech in September 2004 introduced the concept of an ownership society. ... Bush would win re-election and unveil the centerpiece of his ownership agenda, Social Security privatization. Six months after that, not only was Social Security privatization dead: its staggering unpopularity had weighed down the entire administration. Peter Gosselin ... in ...

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