The excellent blog Capital & Main has an important piece up
about the proposal to create a new retirement system in the state for workers
who do not have a pension system.
As the writer Judith Lewis Mernit well describes, California (
and the nation)
For comparison, here is the Sacramento Bee version of the same
story. http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article68342897.html
The Capital and Main piece is a good piece on important issues.
But, do we really only want to consider the neoliberal finance approach?
For example, the proposal calls for employers to insist on participation,
but apparently does not require employers to contribute- as does social security.
Then, the advocates claim it is progressive because of the
pooled IRA project. But, IRA's are still invested in the markets. This is
like the Peterson Institute arguing for the privatization of social security.
