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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Bottom Line | |
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| Owners | |
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| Who Owns How Much? | |
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| Very Rich, Getting Richer | |
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| What the Wealthy Own | |
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| The Color of Wealth | |
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| The Richest People in the World | |
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| Gross Inequalities | |
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| Born on Third Base | |
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| CEO Pay | |
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| Scraping By | |
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| Who Gets Money from What? | |
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| The Price of Influence | |
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| Dollar Democracy | |
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| Controlling Media | |
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| Mega-Mergers | |
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| Multinational Goliaths | |
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| Worker Owners | |
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| Workers | |
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| Who's in the Labor Force? | |
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| Bye-bye Factory Jobs | |
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| The Wage Treadmill | |
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| Skimpy Paychecks | |
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| Tough Luck, Kids | |
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| The Minimal Minimum Wage | |
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| Shrinking Benefits | |
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| Unequal Pay | |
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| The Working Poor | |
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| Living Wage Campaigns | |
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| Underemployment | |
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| Jobless in 1998 | |
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| The Ups and Downs of Unemployment | |
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| Downsizing | |
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| Who Belongs to Unions? | |
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| The Comeback Kid | |
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| Women | |
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| Most Women Earn a Wage | |
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| Married-Couple Families Are Less Common | |
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| Women Still Earn Less Than Men | |
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| Equal Work, Unequal Pay | |
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| Nice Work if You Can Get It | |
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| Glass Ceilings | |
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| Pink-Collar Jobs | |
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| The Care Penalty | |
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| Mothers, Children, and Poverty | |
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| Deadbeat Dads | |
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| Working Parents | |
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| Work/Family Conflicts | |
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| The Demand for Child Care | |
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| Family Policies in Europe | |
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| Safe Sex | |
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| Reproductive Rights and Wrongs | |
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| People of Color | |
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| Who We Are | |
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| Asian and Latino Diversity | |
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| New Citizens | |
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| Neighborhoods in Black and White | |
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| Last Hired | |
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| Unemployment by Degrees | |
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| The Education Gap Persists | |
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| More Menial Work | |
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| Wage Inequalities | |
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| The Color of Poverty | |
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| Doing Time | |
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| Marriageable Men | |
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| Women Maintaining Families | |
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| Who's Raising the Kids? | |
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| Lending Discrimination | |
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| Affirmative Action | |
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| Government | |
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| How Big is Government? | |
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| Government Spending Elsewhere | |
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| Where Federal Dollars Go | |
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| The Fate of Social Spending | |
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| Stealth Bombers Don't Trickle Down | |
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| Policing the World | |
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| Back in the Black | |
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| Borrowed Money | |
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| Who Pays the Taxes? | |
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| Unfair Shares | |
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| Taxing Business | |
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| Buying Favors | |
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| Declining Democracy | |
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| Corporate Welfare | |
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| Is Social Security Going Broke? | |
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| Social Security or Insecurity? | |
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| Welfare and Education | |
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| Family Income | |
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| Low-Income Households Get a Smaller Share | |
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| Defining Poverty | |
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| The Likelihood of Being Poor | |
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| Poverty Among Children and the Elderly | |
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| Poverty Hurts Kids | |
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| Handouts for the Affluent | |
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| Welfare Farewell | |
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| From Welfare to What? | |
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| Bare Cupboards | |
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| Searching for Shelter | |
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| Mean Streets | |
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| Kid Care | |
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| Poor Schools for Poor Kids | |
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| The Price of College | |
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| Who Graduates from College? | |
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| Health | |
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| Hey, Big Spender | |
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| Spend More, Live Less | |
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| Look Who's Paying | |
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| Poor People Pay More | |
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| The Unhealthy Cost of Care | |
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| A Day in the Hospital | |
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| It Pays to Specialize | |
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| R[subscript X] = Big Bucks | |
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| Earn More, Feel Better | |
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| Too Poor for Care | |
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| People of Color Lack Insurance | |
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| African-American Children at Greater Risk | |
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| Managing Care | |
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| HMO Woes | |
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| Health Around the World | |
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| AIDS | |
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| Environment | |
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| GDP is Misleading | |
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| Gifts of Nature | |
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| Toxic Polluters | |
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| Taking Out the Trash | |
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| Environmental Racism | |
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| Hazardous Wastes | |
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| Septic Streams | |
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| Environmental Industries | |
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| The EPA is Weak | |
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| Free-Market Environmentalism | |
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| On the Road Again | |
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| Energy Hogs | |
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| When a Tree Falls... | |
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| Endangered Species | |
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| Acid Rain Goes East | |
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| The Global Greenhouse | |
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| Macroeconomics | |
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| Slower Growth | |
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| Dividing the Pie | |
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| The Ups and Downs of GDP | |
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| Business Cycles | |
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| Sagging Productivity | |
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| Profits in America | |
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| Business Failures | |
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| Merger Mania | |
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| The Cost of Borrowing | |
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| The Story Behind Interest Rates | |
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| Disappearing Banks | |
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| The Changing Face of Finance | |
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| Keeping Up With the Dow Jones | |
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| Debt Trap | |
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| Investing for the Future | |
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| Unbalanced Trade | |
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| The Global Economy | |
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| Global Slowdown | |
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| Unemployment Elsewhere | |
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| Cross-Border Conglomerates | |
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| Have Profits, Will Travel | |
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| Trade Transformation | |
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| Cheap Labor and Imports | |
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| Trade, Women, and Work | |
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| Export Processing Zones | |
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| Foreign Direct Investment | |
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| Fair-Weather Finance | |
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| High-Speed Investment | |
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| The Euro | |
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| Global Free-For-All | |
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| International Meltdown | |
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| Devaluation Hits Home | |
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| Crying for Food | |
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| The Consumption Gap | |
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| Does Economic Growth Deliver the Goods? | |
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| Toolkit | |
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| A Guide to General Sources | |
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| How to Read and Write Graphs | |
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| Means, Medians, and Other Measures | |
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| Real vs. Nominal: How to Use Price Indices | |
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| The Census Vocabulary: Families, Households, Persons, and Heads | |
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| What They Call Us: Racial and Ethnic Labels in Economic Data | |
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| Measuring Growth: What's Gross About Gross Domestic Product? | |
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| Uppers and Downers: The Business Cycle | |
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| A Guide to the Federal Budget | |
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| Poverty and the Poverty Line | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Sources | |