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Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity
by Susan Starr Sered  Publisher Comments The authors paint a devastating portrait of the decline of health care in thecountry, told through the stories of various people's lives....
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The Raw Deal: How Myths and Misinformation about the Deficit, Inflation, and Wealth Impoverish America
by Ellen Frank Publisher Comments How economic rhetoric and policy have been hijacked to serve the interests of the wealthy <BR>Americans have fallen for the ticker tape. We watch our portfolios, happily or nervously. We know there were a few bad apples at Enron and WorldCom, but...
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Policy Analyses in International Economics #85: Blue-Collar Blues: Is Trade to Blame for Rising Us Income Inequality
by Robert Z Lawrence Synopsis What are the links between slow US real wage growth, increased earnings inequality and trade? Lawrence deconstructs the gap between real blue-collar wages and labor productivity growth over the past quarter-century and estimates (a) how much of the gap...
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The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation
by Greg LeRoy Publisher Comments Exploring in depth the abuses of tax breaks by large corporations and government through the "economic development" of communities, LeRoy offers a series of commonsense reforms that would give taxpayers powerful new tools to redirect monies in ways that...
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The Permanent Tax Revolt: How the Property Tax Transformed American Politics
by Isaac William Martin Publisher Comments Tax cuts are such a pervasive feature of the American political landscape that the political establishment rarely questions them. Since 2001, Congress has abolished the tax on inherited wealth and passed a major income tax cut every year, including two...
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The Zero-Sum Society: Distribution and the Possibilities for Economic Change
by Lester Thurow Publisher Comments Written during a period of acute economic stagnation in 1980, The Zero-Sum Society discusses the human implications of economic problem solving. Interpreting macroeconomics as a zero-sum game, Thurow proposes that the American economy will not solve its...
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The Rigged Game: Corporate America and a People Betrayed
by John Hively Publisher Comments Using statistics from the Department of Commerce and other sources, and beginning with the Great Depression, John Hively traces how recessions begin, how corporations and financial markets are interconnected, and describes the consequences of current...
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The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy
by Robert Pollin Publisher Comments The first comprehensive examination of the economic concept now being implemented across the nation with dramatic results....
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Green with Envy: Why Keeping Up with the Joneses Is Keeping Us in Debt
by Shira Boss Publisher Comments In this myth-shattering book, a leading business journalist exposes the shocking gap between personal finance and public image, and reveals how Americans are caught in the trap of living beyond their means....
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Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Global Economy
by Edward Gresser Publisher Comments In this provocative new book, Gresser shows how American liberals who look to put the brakes on globalization have unwittingly turned their backs on the poor in abandoning a tradition heralded by Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Clinton. Freedom From Want claims...
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The Leisure Economy: How Changing Demographics, Economics, and Generational Attitudes Will Reshape Our Lives and Our Industries
by Linda Nazareth Publisher Comments For the past three decades, we have been steadily creating an extreme time-crunch economy that has affected jobs, portfolios, businesses and lives. But the time-crunch economy is turning into the leisure economy and it will mean wrenching adjustments for...
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The Unaffordable Nation: Searching for a Decent Life in America
by Jeffrey Jones Publisher Comments The American dream used to mean that hard work guaranteed a decent life. However, that article of faith is no more. Here, Jones outlines the respective obligations of government and individuals in ensuring a life that is affordable for every person who...
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Race to the Bottom
by John T Hackett Publisher Comments Race to the Bottom reveals the decline of a once proud and successful manufacturing company and its Midwest community. The company's success, the philantropic leaadership of its founding families, and the pride of an entire city combine to create a...
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Inequality Matters
by James (edt) Lardner Publisher Comments Drawing on the best and latest research, contributors to this volume explore the reasons why America has become one of the most unequal of developed nations--where the only population growing faster than millionaires is the uninsured....
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Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Debate Over Taxes
by Joel Slemrod Publisher Comments As Albert Einstein may or may not have said, andquot;The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.andquot; Indeed, to follow the debate over tax reform, the interested citizen is forced to choose between misleading sound bites and...
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Generation Debt: How Our Future Was Sold Out for Student Loans, Bad Jobs, Nobenefits, and Tax Cuts for Rich Geezers--And How to Fight B
by Anya Kamenetz Publisher Comments In this thoroughly researched and rousing manifesto, Anya Kamenetz chronicles and questions the plight of the new "youth class": 18 — to 29-year-olds who are drowning in debt and therefore seemingly unable to "grow up." Many older adults perceive...
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Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Towards Bankruptcy
by Daniel N Shaviro Publisher Comments This book proposes a better fiscal language and understanding for U.S. budgetary policy....
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Tabor and Direct Democracy: An Essay on the End of the Republic (Speaker's Corner Books)
by Bradley J Young Publisher Comments In 1992, Colorado voters passed an amendment to the state constitution that was placed on the ballot by a citizen-led petition. The measure, known as the Taxpayers? Bill of Rights, or TABOR, had many components to limit the growth of state and local...
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Take This Job and Ship It: How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America
by Byron Dorgan Publisher Comments Our trade deficit increases by $2 billion a day. Pharmaceutical companies and their lobbyists have such influence in Washington that Medicare, by current law, is not allowed to negotiate lower drug prices. We import oil on an ever-increasing scale...
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Unsustainable: How Economic Dogma Is Destroying American Prosperity
by Eamonn Fingleton Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-278) and index....
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