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High wire : the precarious financial lives of American families / Peter Gosselin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gosselin, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic security--United States.
- Economic security.
- Households--Economic aspects--United States.
- Households.
- Families--Economic aspects--United States.
- Families.
- United States--Economic policy.
- United States.
- United States--Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Precarious financial lives of American families
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, c2008.
- Summary:
- Peter Gosselin predicted in High Wire that the American worker would take on an exceedingly high level of risk in the American economy, and would be ever more exposed to the volatility of the market. Today, Gosselin's worst fears have been realized. American families are walking a high wire in which a medical crisis, a natural disaster, or the loss of a job could send them into free fall. And as the housing crisis worsens and banks and insurers collapse, many have already fallen. High Wire reveals the quiet corrosion of American living standards and shows how the ?ownership
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Benefits
- The numbers
- Jobs
- Un-jobs
- The poor
- Housing
- Education
- Health
- Retirement
- New Orleans
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-365) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-46038-2
- 9786612460388
- 0-7867-4449-9
- OCLC:
- 699495002
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