
Down The Up Escalator: How The 99 Percent Live In The Great Recession
One of our most incisive and committed journalistsauthor of the classic All the Livelong Dayshows us the real human cost of our economic follies.The Great Recession has thrown huge economic challenges at almost all Americans save the superaffluent few, and we are only now beginning to reckon up the human toll it is taking. Down the Up Escalator is an urgent dispatch from the front lines of our va...
Audio CD: 1 pages
Publisher: AudioGO; Unabridged edition (September 17, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1620649586
ISBN-13: 978-1620649589
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.8 x 5.8 inches
Amazon Rank: 6911617
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“I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to understand the profoundimpact of the Great Recession and the decline of incomes for the 99% since1980. She skillfully allows the Americans to express the impact of the past30 yrs on their families and ...”
t collective struggle to keep our heads above water and maybe evensomedayget ahead. Garson has interviewed an economically and geographically wide variety of Americans to show the painful waste in all this loss and insecurity, and describe how individuals are coping. Her broader historical focus, though, is on the causes and consequences of the long stagnation of wages and how it has resulted in an increasingly desperate reliance on credit and a series of ever-larger bubblesstocks, technology, real estate. This is no way to run an economy, or a democracy.From the members of the Pink Slip Club in New York, to a California home health-care aide on the eve of eviction, to a subprime mortgage broker who still thinks it could have worked, Down the Up Escalator presents a sobering picture of what happens to a society when it becomes economically organized to benefit only the very rich and the quick-buck speculators. But it also demonstrates the wit and resilience of ordinary Americansand why they deserve so much better than the hand theyve been dealt.
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