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Down the up Escalator How the 99 Percent Live

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ISBN-10: 0307475980

ISBN-13: 9780307475985

Edition: N/A

Authors: Barbara Garson

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One of our most incisive and committed journalists—author of the classic All the Livelong Day—shows us the real human cost of our economic follies. The Great Recession has thrown huge economic chal­lenges at almost all Americans save the super-affluent 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 vast collective struggle to keep our heads above water and maybe even—someday—get 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…    
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Book details

List price: $34.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/28/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.99" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English