From Some Questions for Jacob Hacker on the Oxford University Press blog:
Jacob S. Hacker writes in the preface to his new book,
The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement— And How You Can Fight Back that “the story of growing economic insecurity in the United States…is elusive for many reasons: It is so starkly at odds with our nation’s evident prosperity. It reaches across so many different areas of our lives – our jobs, our families, our retirement, our health care. And it’s a story we have only heard in terms of single issues: how we are more at risk of job layoffs than we once were, or how we are increasingly responsible for our own retirement, or how Health Savings Accounts might make us sole providers for our own health care…”
Hacker, a Rrofessor of political science at Yale University and a fellow at the New America Foundation, answers some questions for OUP about The Great Risk Shift.
This part is kind of funny: Hacker is asked: “What can Americans do to reduce their own exposure to economic risk?” His answer: “I argue for a three-step response: Get Wise, Get Mad, and Get Even.” I wonder if he thinks we can defeat inflation by wearing WIN buttons?
2:58 pm on October 2, 2006
