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African Americans Economic conditions 21st century Economic history New Deal Politics and government Social conditions United States United States Economic conditions United States Economic conditions 21st century United States Economic policy United States Social conditions 21st centuryCalhoun, Ada
Summary: "When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too? Calhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.244 CALHarris, Malcolm
Summary: "Millennials have been stereotyped as lazy, entitled, narcissistic, and developmentally delayed. In fact, they are the hardest working and most educated generation in American history, a generation that poured unprecedented amounts of time and money into preparing themselves for the 21st century market. Yet here they are: poorer, more medicated, more precariously employed, and with less of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.2 HARSummary: "I.O.U.S.A. tells the story of America in debt. Faced with key deficits in budget, savings, trade and leadership, increased foreign competition and ballooning financial obligations, the federal government is critically overextended. With the economy already in shambles, 78 million baby boomers are now expecting retirement benefits from their indebted federal government. Weaving together...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Home Video 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC I.O.U.Leonhardt, David
Summary: "Two decades into the twenty-first century, the stagnation of living standards has become the defining trend of American life. Life expectancy has declined, economic inequality has soared, and, after some progress, the Black-white wage gap is once again as large as it was in the 1950s. How did this happen in the world's most powerful country? And what happened to the "American dream"--the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: Baby Boomers are the most prosperous generation in American history, but their kids are screwed. In just a few short decades health care costs doubled, home ownership rates plummeted, and average student loan debt grew by more than 500 percent. Filipovic draws on data, history, and deep reporting to tell the story of how the most prosperous generation in the history of the world left so little...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.242 FILGibney, Bruce
Summary: Gibney shows how America was hijacked by a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity. Acting without empathy, prudence, or respect for facts-- acting, in other words, as sociopaths-- they turned American dynamism into stagnation, inequality, and bipartisan fiasco. In the 2030s damage to Social Security, public finances, and the environment will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 GIBTimiraos, Nick
Summary: "By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. Unemployment was plumbing half-century lows. Stock markets soared to new highs. One month later, the public health battle against a deadly virus had pushed the economy into the equivalent of a medically induced coma. America's workplaces-offices, shops, malls, and factories-shuttered. Many of the nation's largest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 TIMShlaes, Amity.
Summary: It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression--only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand it. These people are at the heart of this reinterpretation of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century. Author Shlaes presents the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 SHLKaskowitz, Sheryl
Summary: "In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt to take radical action to help those hit hardest-Appalachian miners and mill workers stranded after factories closed, city dwellers with no hope of getting work, farmers whose land had failed. They set up government homesteads in rural areas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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Summary: "The years since the Great Crisis of 2008 have seen slow growth, high unemployment, falling home values, chronic deficits, a deepening disaster in Europe--and a stale argument between two false solutions, "austerity" on one side and "stimulus" on the other. Both sides and practically all analyses of the crisis so far take for granted that the economic growth from the early 1950s until...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339 GALFavreau, Marc
Summary: "Marc Favreau documents the Great Depression--a time when Americans from all walks of life fell victim to poverty, insecurity, and fear--and tells the incredible story of how they survived and, ultimately, thrived. This is the story of the Great Depression in the United States, from the sweeping consequences of the market collapse to the more personal stories of individuals and communities...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.91 FAVAndersen, Kurt
Summary: "Americans have disabled the government's ability to solve even basic problems, making us vulnerable to the most dangerous demagogue ever to pretend to the White House. Kurt Andersen shows how the masterminds of the economic right rode an unprecedented wave of nostalgia by dressing up their harsh new rich-get-richer system in patriotic old-time drag, making it their mission to take over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 330.973 ANDGreenspan, Alan
Summary: "In Capitalism in America, Greenspan distills a lifetime of grappling with these questions into a thrilling and profound master reckoning with the decisive drivers of the US economy over the course of its history. In partnership with the celebrated Economist journalist and historian Adrian Wooldridge, he unfolds a tale involving vast landscapes, titanic figures, triumphant breakthroughs,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 330.973 GRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 GRECaldwell, Christopher
Summary: "A sweeping 50-year history of how the Baby Boomers took the reforms of the 1960s too far, leading to a multitude of contradictions in American society and values that caused our current political polarization"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.24 CALSummary: "A collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans. Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former Managing Director of EHRP, gives voice to a range of gifted writers for whom "economic precarity" is more than just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.569 GOIKotlikoff, Laurence J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIT Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 KOTSummary: Presents the theory that the American dream, all but abandoned in the United States, has been adopted successfully in other countries, including Italy, France, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Tunisia, and Iceland, looking at such areas as worker benefits, public expenditure for the common good, and state-funded higher education.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2016
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3 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHEHurd, Will
Summary: "From former Republican Congressman and CIA Officer Will Hurd, a bold political playbook for America rooted in the timeless ideals of bipartisanship, inclusivity, and democratic values. It's getting harder to get big things done in America. The gears of our democracy have been mucked up by political nonsense. To meet the era-defining challenges of the 21st century, our country needs a reboot....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 HURRiley, Jason (Jason L.)
Summary: "This book explains why so many efforts by liberals to help the black underclass not only fail but often harm the intended beneficiaries. The intentions behind welfare programs may be noble, but in practice they have slowed the self-development that was necessary for other groups to advance. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they also have a long...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Distribution Services 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 RILSummary: Examines economics professor and Clinton Administration cabinet member Robert Reich's crusade to expose the problem of income inequality in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INE1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INE
Warren, Elizabeth
Summary: "Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America's middle class, and by the time the people of Massachusetts elected her in 2012, she had become one of the country's leading progressive voices. Now, at a perilous moment for our nation, she has written a book that is at once an illuminating account of how we built the strongest middle class in history, a scathing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 WARRothman, Joshua D.
Summary: "In The Ledger and the Chain, prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield company and the men who built it into the largest and most powerful slave trading company in the United States. In so doing, he reveals the central importance of the domestic slave trade to the development of American capitalism and the expansion of the American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, Hachette Book Group 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 ROTMarie, Jane
Summary: "Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of the American working class. We've all heard of Amway, Mary Kay, Tupperware, and LuLaRoe, but few know the nefarious way they and countless other multilevel marketing (MLM) companies prey on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 658.8 MARLowenstein, Roger
Summary: "In Ways and Means, journalist Roger Lowenstein reveals the unlikely story of how Abraham Lincoln used the urgency of financing the Civil War to transform a union of states into one united nation. Through a financial lens, he explores how this second American revolution, led by Lincoln, his cabinet, and his congress, changed the direction of the country"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022