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Taylor & Francis Ltd Middle Class Meltdown In America Causes Consequences And Remedies 2Nd Edition 2013 by Kevin T Leicht, Scott T Fitzgerald
In accessible prose for North American undergraduate students, this short text provides a sociological understanding of the causes and consequences of growing middle class inequality, with an abundance of supporting, empirical data. The book also addresses what we, as individuals and as a society, can do to put middle class Americans on a sounder footing. 1. The Illusion of Middle Class Prosperity in the United States / 2. The Struggling Middle Class / 3. Macroeconomics and the Income/Credit Squeeze / 4. Robbing the Productivity Train / 5. Where Did All That Credit Come From? / 6. From Washington to Wall Street: Marketing the Illusion / 7. The Great Recession of 2008-2009: The Illusion Exposed / 8. The Consequences of Middle Class Meltdown / 9. What Can We Do? A Manifesto for the Middle Class / Appendix: Exhibits