(Not) keeping up with our parents the decline of the professional middle class /

Main Author: Mooney, Nan, 1970-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, c2008.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10256102
Table of Contents:
  • The new reality
  • From the New Deal to the new economy : a short history of the American middle class
  • College promises : real debt and false expectations
  • Career and contribution : society or the 401(k)?
  • To have or to hold : money, marriage, and children
  • What were the benefits? : health care, retirement and everything else the government was supposed to help provide
  • Bridging the gaps : saving, spending, and debt
  • A question of equity : rent rich or house poor
  • From ripples to revolution : changing the system, changing ourselves.