Drawing on more than 100 interviews with diverse families across America, Mooney explores the financial struggles of today's professional middle class, delving into their sense of economic security and their plans for and fears about the future.
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Drawing on more than 100 interviews with diverse families across America, Mooney explores the financial struggles of today's professional middle class, delving into their sense of economic security and their plans for and fears about the future.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 254 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2007038364 Type of material Book Personal name Mooney, Nan, 1970-Main title (Not) keeping up with our parents: the decline of the professional middle class / Nan Mooney. Published/Created Boston: Beacon Press, c2008. Description x, 254 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 9780807011386 (alk. paper) 080701138X (alk. paper) LC classification HD8038. U5 M66 2008 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. Subjects Professional employees--United States. Middle class--United States--Economic conditions. College graduates--United States--Economic conditions--21st century. Notes "Published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-241) and index. Dewey class no. 330.9730086/22 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn173502672 (OCoLC)173502672
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