Fixing the future
by Bruce Little · first published 2008
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Related: the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) was also a PAYGO system and was reformed in the late 1990s: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Pension_Plan#1998_refor... A good book on how it happened is Fixing the Future by Bruce Little: > While the deficit battles have been recounted many times, the story of the reform that rescued the CPP has gone almost entirely untold. In Fixing the Future, Bruce Little explains…
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