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Not Keeping up with Our Parents : The Decline of the Professional Middle Class.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Beacon Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (264 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780807097496
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Not Keeping up with Our ParentsDDC classification:
  • 330.9730086/22
LOC classification:
  • HD8038.U5 -- M66 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1. THE NEW REALITY -- 2. FROM THE NEW DEAL TO THE NEW ECONOMY: A Short History of the American Middle Class -- 3. COLLEGE PROMISES: Real Debt and False Expectations -- 4. CAREER AND CONTRIBUTION: Society or the 401(k)? -- 5. TO HAVE OR TO HOLD: Money, Marriage, and Children -- 6. WHAT WERE THE BENEFITS?: Health Care, Retirement, and Everything Else the Government Was Supposed to Help Provide -- 7. BRIDGING THE GAPS: Saving, Spending, and Debt -- 8. A QUESTION OF EQUITY: Rent Rich or House Poor -- 9. FROM RIPPLES TO REVOLUTION: Changing the System, Changing Ourselves -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1. THE NEW REALITY -- 2. FROM THE NEW DEAL TO THE NEW ECONOMY: A Short History of the American Middle Class -- 3. COLLEGE PROMISES: Real Debt and False Expectations -- 4. CAREER AND CONTRIBUTION: Society or the 401(k)? -- 5. TO HAVE OR TO HOLD: Money, Marriage, and Children -- 6. WHAT WERE THE BENEFITS?: Health Care, Retirement, and Everything Else the Government Was Supposed to Help Provide -- 7. BRIDGING THE GAPS: Saving, Spending, and Debt -- 8. A QUESTION OF EQUITY: Rent Rich or House Poor -- 9. FROM RIPPLES TO REVOLUTION: Changing the System, Changing Ourselves -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

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