Summary: "For most Americans, Social Security is their largest financial asset, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and indexed against increases in the cost of living. It is also an incredibly complicated program, with 2,728 core rules and thousands of codicils. As a result, Americans lose billions of dollars a year in unclaimed benefits. This money that we have earned and are entitled to, that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Welcome Rain Publishers 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.6 OFFSummary: This Handbook provides information on topics such as how Social Security programs are administered, who is and isn't covered under the insurance programs, how claims are processed, what benefits are included, and how to obtain more information about Social Security policies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Reference, Call number: Ref 344.73 SocialMatthews, J. L.
Summary: Your complete guide to Social Security retirement and medical benefits. The rules for claiming Social Security benefits have changed. Find out if you can still choose between your own benefits and spousal benefits. Learn this and more with Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions completely updated for 2020.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2020
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Summary: "In 2016, Social Security rules changed radically. Do you know how - and how these changes might apply to you? Americans have left literally billions of Social Security dollars on the table - benefits we have earned, are eligible to take, but simply aren't aware of. Fully revised and carefully updated in light of the new law, Get What's Yours is the indispensable guide to collecting the maximum...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.6 KOTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging KotlikoffNewman, Katherine S.
Summary: A sharp examination of the troubled state of retirement in America shares sobering insights into how the real estate crash and limited social security are preventing retirement and inducing widespread poverty in aging Baby Boomers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.3 NEWSummary: "I.O.U.S.A. tells the story of America in debt. Faced with key deficits in budget, savings, trade and leadership, increased foreign competition and ballooning financial obligations, the federal government is critically overextended. With the economy already in shambles, 78 million baby boomers are now expecting retirement benefits from their indebted federal government. Weaving together...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Home Video 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC I.O.U.Garfink, Steve
Summary: The author presents his analysis and insights into Social Security's funding, uses a wealth of scenarios to illustrate laying claim to your Social Security benefits, and assists the reader in developing a personal benefits claiming strategy, including how to retire abroad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: International Living Publishing Ltd. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 368.43 GARHubbard, Ben
Summary: "In a growing digital world, how can you remain safe and secure? How can you protect yourself and your information? Learn all about your digital safety and security in this eye-opening book."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J343.73 HUBMorton, David A.
Summary: "This comprehensive book covers both SSDI and SSI, shows the reader how to prove a disability, and explains how one's age, education, and work experience affect his or her chances. Parents will find special information about benefits available to childrenwith a disability. The reader will learn how to: find the disability criteria for a medical condition, prove the severity of a disability,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo Law for All 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 368.38 MOSummary: Commitments made to senior citizens decades ago failed to foresee the harsh economic realities of the present. Do expensive government programs saddle our children with unmanageable debt, asking them to sacrifice their future for the sake of the elderly? Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid were created to provide a social safety net. But if we cut these programs, are we balancing the budget...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Hebeler, H. K. (Henry K.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 HEBKotlikoff, Laurence J.
Summary: "Learn the secrets to maximizing your Social Security benefits and earn up to thousands of dollars more each year with expert advice that you can't get anywhere else. Want to know how to navigate the forbidding maze of Social Security and emerge with the highest possible benefits? You could try reading all 2,728 rules of the Social Security system (and the thousands of explanations of these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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Summary: This book helps baby boomers navigate the Medicare and Social Security systems, maximize benefits, and appeal denials of services and benefits. It also covers Social Security disability, veterans disability compensation, and federal retirement benefits as well as SSI, Medicaid, and veterans pension for low-income readers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344 MATGhilarducci, Teresa
Summary: "The issue of the future of Social Security, on which millions of Americans depend, produced great political theater at the State of the Union address. That highlighted a bigger problem of financing retirement as baby boomers seek to retire, often with limited resources. Many argue that the solution to the problem is for people to work longer. Teresa Ghilarducci, a noted expert on retirement,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2024
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Summary: "The award-winning Social Security For Dummies-now in its fourth edition-is the one guide you need to navigate the often-complex world of Social Security benefits. You'll learn when to start claiming, how much you can expect to receive, where to find Social Security calculators, and more. Since 1937, workers across the United States have set aside a portion of their wages to fund Social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Demystifies obscure Social Security and retirement laws in order to help readers make informed decisions about early retirement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 SILFasman, Jon
Summary: "An investigation into the legal, political, and moral issues surrounding how the police and justice system use surveillance technology, asking the question: what are citizens of a free country willing to tolerate in the name of public safety? Jon Fasmanlooks at how these technologies help police do their jobs, and what their use means for our privacy rights and civil liberties"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.44 FASSiegel, Marc.
Contents: The fear epidemic -- Contemporary fear -- Mechanisms of fear -- The politics of danger -- Fear of death -- Disasters : real or imagined -- The topography of worry -- Profiting from fear -- Anthrax -- West Nile virus, smallpox, chemical weapons -- SARS -- Human flu -- Mad cow, bird flu -- The fear counselor -- Treating fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.17 SIETrilling, Daniel
Summary: "... The founding story of the European Union is that it exists to ensure the horrors of the twentieth century are never repeated. Now, as it comes to terms with the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War, its declared values of freedom, tolerance and respect for human rights are being put to the test. [This book] is a uniquely powerful and illuminating exploration of the nature and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.87 TRILSummary: Civil liberties advocates have warned against government surveillance for decades. Today, corporations use technology to monitor employees and customers. Is big business the new big brother? This program addresses the growing debate about our "surveillance society" and its erosion of privacy and anonymity-which could become casualties of the war for market supremacy as well as the war on...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Computer bugs are no mere prank. A disruption of global communications networks by today's sophisticated worms and viruses is costing companies billions and can do lasting damage to the world's economic health. This NewsHour program begins by defining these binary invaders and then examines the escalating security challenges of keeping networks free of infection. Members of the Computer...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Currie, Stephen
Summary: Discusses issues regarding the right to privacy and the impact of the internet, including information on identity theft, cyberbullying, secret data collection, hacking, and security breaches.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 004.67 CURSchneier, Bruce
Summary: A hack is any means of subverting a system's rules in unintended ways. Bruce Schneier takes hacking out of the world of computing and uses it to analyze the systems that underpin our society: from tax laws to financial markets to politics. He reveals an array of powerful actors whose hacks bend our economic, political, and legal systems to their advantage, at the expense of everyone else.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 303.4834 SCHDi Cintio, Marcello
Summary: "What does it mean to live against a wall? In this ambitious first person narrative, Marcello Di Cintio travels to the world's most disputed edges to meet the people who live alongside the razor wire, concrete, and steel and how the structure of the walls has influenced their lives. Di Cintio shares tea with Saharan refugees on the wrong side of Morocco's desert wall. He meets with illegal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2013