Katherine S. Newman is James B. Knapp Dean of the Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Among her many books are "Falling From Grace, No Shame in My Game, Rampage" and "The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America". Rourke L. O Brien is a graduate student in sociology and social policy at Princeton University and a non-resident fellow of the New America Foundation.
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Retirement insecurity is an increasingly serious manifestation of the vast inequality that risks destroying the social fabric in America. The nearly inevitable consequence of lifetime wage discrepancies, security in retirement is linked to the kinds of jo... SEE MORE