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Alexander, Brian Causey, Frances Quart, Alissa Smith, Hedrick. Tankersley, Jim Warren, ElizabethTankersley, Jim
Summary: "The untold story of what once made America's economy great--and why it now keeps falling into crisis." -- inside front book jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.55 TANAlexander, Brian
Summary: "In 1947, Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio, the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is damaged, discouraged, and fighting for its future. In Glass house, journalist Brian Alexander uses the story of one town to show how seeds sown thirty-five years ago have sprouted to give us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding national cohesion."--Jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 ALEWarren, 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 WARCausey, Frances
Summary: Explores the impact that deregulation and outsourcing have had on American's middle class.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HEIQuart, Alissa
Summary: "Squeezed" weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutionsfor how we might change things. Families today are squeezed on every side--from high childcare costs and harsh employment policies to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 QUACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.5 QUACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 QUASummary: "Detroit's story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century: the Great Migration of African Americans escaping Jim Crow; the rise of manufacturing and the middle class; the love affair with automobiles; the flowering of the American dream; and now, the collapse of the economy and the fading American mythos. With its vivid, painterly palette and haunting score,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DET1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DET
Smith, Hedrick.
Summary: Recounts how the American dream has been dismantled over the past forty years by legislative, electoral, and corporate decisions that have compromised the middle class and minimized individual economic and political power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 SMISummary: Since 1992, Bill Moyers has been following the story of two ordinary, hard-working families in Milwaukee-one black, one white-as they spent two decades in an extraordinary battle to keep from sliding into poverty. With poignant and revealing intimacy, this film chronicles the struggles of the Neumanns and the Stanleys as they try to hold onto their homes, their jobs, their health insurance, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2013