Hot Topics @ SDPL: Pensions in Crisis | San Diego Public Library

See our Hot Topic Archives. Hot Topic: Pensions in Crisis Both in San Diego and across the country, retirement pensions have been in the news-mostly for reasons retirees (and prospective retirees) would rather not think about. The City of San Diego currently faces a fiscal crisis that resulted in part from the decision to under-fund its pension obligations, and the nation as a whole faces the prospect of increased strains on Social Security as Baby Boomers enter their retirement years. Below you will find a list of resources (both print and electronic) available through your San Diego Public Library on the topic of pensions. --Prepared by the San Diego Public Library, June 2005
Print Materials
False Alarm: Why the Greatest Threat to Social Security and Medicare Is the Campaign to "Save" Them by Joseph White. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. 368.43/WHITE	Banking on Death: Or, Investing in Life: The History and Future of Pensions, by Robin Blackburn. London: Verso, 2002. 331.252/BLACKBURN	Social Security and Its Discontents: Perspectives on Choice edited by Michael D. Tanner. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2004. 368.43/SOCIAL
The Looting of Social Security: How the Government Is Draining America's Retirement Account by Allen W. Smith. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004. 368.43/SMITH	Social Security Under the Gun: What Every Informed Citizen Needs to Know about Pension Reform by Arthur Benavie. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 368.43/BENAVIE
The Outlook for Social Security by Noah Meyerson. Washington, DC: Congress of the United States, Congressional Budget Office, 2004. Y 10.2:SO 1/4	Mayor and City council ask unions to partner to help solve pension problems. City of San Diego, Mayor Dick Murphy. 2005. SAN DIEGO (CITY) M 1.2:P 38

Newspaper and Magazine Articles

"Turmoil in San Diego's City Hall." Christopher Palmeri. Business Week Online. 4/26/2005. (MasterFILE Premier)

"Whatever Next?" The Economist. 4/30/2005, Vol. 375, Issue 8424. (MasterFILE Premier)

"Are Pensions in Peril?" Time. 5/23/2005, Vol. 165, Issue 21, p. 21. (MasterFILE Premier)

"Promises, Ahem." The Economist. 5/14/2005, Vol. 375, Issue 8426, p. 78. (MasterFILE Premier)

"6 San Diego Officials Charged in Pension Case" Mary Williams Walsh. New York Times. New York, N.Y.: May 18, 2005. p. A.18. (ProQuest)

"Scandal Biting into San Diego's Reputation" Elliot Spagat. Seattle Times. Seattle, Wash.: May 23, 2005. p. A.5 (ProQuest)

"Rising Tensions Over Pensions." Byrnes, Nanette; Borrus, Amy. Business Week. 5/16/2005 Issue 3933, p68. (MasterFILE Premier)

"What you need to know on pensions / Last week's ruling on United feeds U.S. workers' insecurity about their retirement." Tom Abate. San Francisco Chronicle. May 15, 2005. p. E.1 (ProQuest)

"'55 and Out' Comes Home To Roost." James Dao. New York Times. May 1, 2005. p. 4.1. (ProQuest)

Web Sites

City of San Diego Budget Information
http://www.sandiego.gov/budget/

City of San Diego Ethics Commission
http://www.sandiego.gov/ethics/index.shtml

City of San Diego Pension Reform Committee
http://www.sandiego.gov/pensionreform/index.shtml

Social Security Online (The Official Website of the U.S. Social Security Administration)
http://www.ssa.gov/

Strengthening Social Security for the 21st Century (Whitehouse.gov)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/social-security/200501/strengthening-socialsecurity.html

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