(Not) keeping up with our parents [electronic resource] : the decline of the professional middle class / Nan Mooney.
By: Mooney, Nan.
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BookPublisher: Boston : Beacon Press, c2008Description: x, 254 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Professional employees -- United States | Middle class -- United States -- Economic conditions | College graduates -- United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 330.9730086/22 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view "Published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-241) and index.
The new reality -- From the New Deal to the new economy : a short history of the American middle class -- College promises : real debt and false expectations -- Career and contribution : society or the 401(k)? -- To have or to hold : money, marriage, and children -- What were the benefits? : health care, retirement and everything else the government was supposed to help provide -- Bridging the gaps : saving, spending, and debt -- A question of equity : rent rich or house poor -- From ripples to revolution : changing the system, changing ourselves.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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