Third World America how our politicians are abandoning the middle class and betraying the American dream

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Summary

The United States of America is in danger of becoming a Third World nation. The evidence is all around us: Our industrial base is vanishing, taking with it the jobs that have formed the backbone of our economy; our education system is in shambles, making it harder for tomorrow's workforce to land good 21st century jobs; our infrastructure is crumbling; our economic system has been reduced to recurring episodes of Corporations Gone Wild; our political system is in thrall to a small financial elite using the power of the checkbook to control both parties. Our children and grandchildren will enjoy fewer opportunities and face a lower standard of living than we did. Finally, she shows what we need to do to stop our freefall.--From publisher description.

Contents

Third world America
Nightmare on Main Street
America the beautiful [strike through] dilapidated
CSI USA: Who killed the American dream?
Saving ourselves from a third world future.

Published Reviews

Booklist Review: "*Starred Review* Could the U.S. be on the brink of becoming a Third World nation? Syndicated columnist Huffington argues that overspending on war at the expense of domestic issues and the alarming decline of the middle class are troubling signals that the U.S. is losing its economic, political, and social stability a stability that has always been maintained by the middle class. She pinpoints the beginning of the decline to the Reagan era, with its denigration of a government safety net. But she is nonpartisan in assigning responsibility to George W. Bush and Bill Clinton for supporting monied interests over those of the middle class; she then takes aim at Obama for expending more money to bail out Wall Street than Main Street. She also points to loss of manufacturing jobs, outsourcing, and globalization, all with emphasis on corporate profits at the expense of workers. Although the U.S. has faced similarly fearful times during the late 1800s and the Great Depression, the middle class was not threatened, as it is today. She offers possible solutions for the decline, including creating jobs to rebuild national infrastructure, reforms in home and credit lending, and tighter restrictions on Wall Street. An engaging analysis of troubling economic and political trends. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The Huffington Post founder is sure to get some media traction with her assertion that the American Dream is an outdated concept.--Bush, Vanessa Copyright 2010 Booklist"
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Publisher's Weekly Review: "One cannot help expecting to hear the vaguely pan-European, breathless, faintly melodic tones of Huffington-political commentator and founder of the Huffington Post-reading her own tome on the shrinking American middle class. Instead, Huffington has turned over duties to the solid Colleen Marlo, who is more conventionally all-American in tone and style. While it might have been fun to listen to seven consecutive hours of Huffington, Marlo is less exhausting to the ear and does a nice job of softening the harsh edges of Huffington's prose. The result is surprisingly soothing-a tough diagnosis meted out with an appropriate dose of sugar. A Crown hardcover. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved."
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Additional Information

Subjects	Sociology Nonfiction Politics Business United States Economic policy 2009- United States Economic conditions 2009- United States Social policy 1993- United States Politics and government 2009-2017. Electronic books. 2009- 1993- 2009-2017.
Publisher	New York :Crown Publishing Group,2010 Crown2010
Edition	1st ed.
Contributors	OverDrive, Inc.
Language	English
System Details	Mode of access: World Wide Web. Format: OverDrive READ Format: Kindle Book Format: Adobe EPUB eBook Requires Amazon Kindle or Adobe Digital Editions
Description	1 online resource
Bibliography Notes	Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-270) and index.
ISBN	9780307719973 9780307719973
Other	Classic View