Down the up Escalator How the 99% Live in the Great Recession

Name: Down the up Escalator How the 99% Live in the Great Recession
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ISBN: 9780385532747

ISBN-10: 0385532741

ISBN-13: 9780385532747

Edition: 2013

Authors: Barbara Garson

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One of our most incisive and committed journalists-author of the classicAll the Livelong Day-shows us the real human cost of our economic follies. The Great Recession has thrown huge economic chalshy;lenges 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 Escalatoris 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 painshy;ful waste in all this loss and insecurity, and describe how individuals are coping. Her broader…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/2/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Author's Note


Introduction: What Caused the Great Recession (in Three Scenes and One Phone Call)



Our Jobs



The Pink Slip Club



Down by the Banks of the Ohio



Innovating the Jobs Away



Even Bankers Can Be Unemployed



Our Homes



Show Me the Mortgage



Bubble Birth Control



Underwater and Up the Creek



Strategic Default



An Upright Man



The House Belongs to Them



An Old-Fashioned Foreclosure with a Modern Twist



Our Savings



Three Investors



Rich or Poor, It's Good to Have Money



The Perfect Twofer


Conclusion: Down Is a Dangerous Direction


To Be Continued…


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