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The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care and Retirement and How You Can Fight Back by Jacob S. Hacker

jkh107's review

4.0

This little book documents the movements both in government and industry to shift health care, retirement savings, and employment risks from society at large to the individual. Illuminates the dark side of the "ownership society" as people who hit hard times are funneled toward bankruptcy or worse--when previously unions, corporations, or government might have helped alleviate the risk. It is a good book but not much I didn't already know. Robert Reich's [b:Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life|476241|Supercapitalism The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life|Robert B. Reich|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1214356259s/476241.jpg|2724571] is a more in-depth analysis of why these trends exist--the competitive pressures of globalization make it impossible to rely on the private sector the way we used to. It is really necessary to do more reading to understand these socioeconomic forces that have a lot of effect on our lives.