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America: What Went Wrong? The Crisis Deepens

by Donald L. Barlett

A policy-focused account of the middle-class squeeze

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A policy-focused account of the middle-class squeeze

Updated for 2020, this book traces the middle-class crisis through decisions made in Washington and on Wall Street. Its account connects congressional and presidential policies with economic inequality and corporate practices involving wages, taxes, and employee retirement plans. The emphasis is on specific policy choices and their effects, placing the pressures on ordinary Americans within a broader economic and political framework. The edition also examines newer policies that the book argues have intensified those pressures, and considers ways to address them. Its central subject is how public decisions and corporate interests shape the distribution of economic costs and benefits.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in U.S. economic policy and taxation
  • Those exploring arguments about inequality, corporate practices, and the middle class
  • Readers seeking a policy-centered account of economic change

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Economic inequalityMiddle-class pressuresTaxation and corporate policyWashington and Wall Street

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Book overview

Updated for 2020! The downward spiral of America's middle class is no accident: This book explains in vivid detail how Washington and Wall Street have made decisions that enrich the wealthy at the expense of everyone else.

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele document the specific acts of Congresses and presidents that have caused soaring economic inequality and enable corporations to pay low wages, owe no taxes and raid the retirement plans of their employees.This book, updated in 2020, is an expanded edition of the bestselling America: What Went Wrong?, which caused a sensation when it exposed the causes of the middle-class crisis. This new edition reveals how new policies are launching a fresh assault on the average American.

Middle-class Americans know that their way of life is under attack. This bookexplains how it happened and how we can make it right.

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