Katherine Newman’s new book, Downhill From Here: Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality, analyzes the United States’ failed retirement system in ways most academic studies do not. And, that is a good thing. Newman, a distinguished sociologist and anthropologist who is currently serving as the interim chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Boston, reports on the decline of the American retirement security system with a breadth of qualitative data, including…

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