Hard times for the middle class
The economy may have begun to recover, but the squeeze on paychecks is as uncomfortable as ever. So far, companies are prospering more than their workers. America's "jobless recovery" faded into history a year ago when the economy started to [... more]
Money Central |
The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II ...
 beautiful prose, compelling argument: There are several very good writers among the critics whose interests and affiliations get them styled "New Americanists"; Hoberek is the best. No flashy neologisms, no sentences overburdened with allusions, [... more]
$22.95
Amazon.com |
Families Against The City;: Middle Class Homes Of ...
Families Against The City;: Middle Class Homes Of Industrial Chicago, 1872-1890 [... more]
$4.93
A1 Books |
Geoffrey Chaucer Still Gathering Fans - Poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer demonstrated the ability to live in the world but not be of it. Born into an at-that-time unrecognized middle class, the poet traveled widely and experienced the world from a number of viewpoints that proved useful to his poetic ... [... more]
Bella Online |
Museum Membership Pros and Cons - Art Appreciation
I have noticed recently that dual/family membership at my area museum (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) has increased. Are they pushing the middle class out? It would appear that way. However, it is how you look at it. Say the yearly dual/family ... [... more]
Bella Online |
Fiat
The story of Fiat, an Italian icon and racing legend, begins in 1899 with founder Giovanni Agnelli. Fiat's early cars were large, and many an Italian racing legend took them onto the racetrack. Next, the company aimed at a growing middle class, ... [... more]
Fine Living |
A flat tax? We're halfway there
Bigger tax breaks for the wealthy have produced a U.S. system in which the rich pay about as much as the middle class. Billionaires are paying not much more taxes, proportionately, than those Americans who are merely prosperous. It's a sign that, ... [... more]
Money Central |
Lou Dobbs Thinks You're a Fool
Lou Dobbs has made himself a crusader for the middle class on his CNN show. He's just written a book, I, for one, am totally stunned at his book and his claims. In it, Dobbs manages to say that he supports American individualism, individual ... [... more]
Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Girls In Trouble Review - Literary Fiction
Sixteen year old Sara comes from a middle class family. Her father, Jack, is a successful accountant and her mother, Abby, is a dental hygienist. Sara dreams of being a psychiatrist. She's a braniac at school and her proud parents are ecstatic ... [... more]
Bella Online |
Off-Shoring the Middle Class: Managing White-Collar Job ...
Elaborates upon the critical issues: Written by global technologist Steve Mushero, Off-Shoring the Middle Class: Managing White-Collar Job Migration to Asia deserves to be a bookshelf companion to Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat", as it [... more]
$14.95
Amazon.com |
Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
Still relevant after all these years: I read "Fear of Falling" out of curiosity. Can a book published in 1989 about the American middle class still be relevant? Sadly -- for reasons that will be detailed below -- it still can be. The middle [... more]
$13.50
Amazon.com |
The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the ...
Five Tentative Stars....: First, Johnston's study is quite interesting, and is a worthwhile read. Possibly his most important contribution is the fusing of scholarship concerning populism and progressivism; specifically, how populist reforms were couched [... more]
$27.95
Amazon.com |
