Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers

by Ellen E. Schultz

Book Overview

Winner of the 2012 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism Hundreds of companies have slashed pensions and health coverage for millions of retirees, claiming that a "perfect storm" of stock market losses, aging workers, and spiraling costs have forced them to take drastic measures. But this so-called retirement crisis is no accident. Ellen E. Schultz, an award-winning investigative reporter formerly of The Wall Street Journal , reveals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591845653
• ISBN13: 9781591845652
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher