middle class

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Squeezed

why our families can't afford America
2018
Discusses the problem that families are having living in America with the limited-options economy, focusing on financial issues, living conditions, and more.
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The American middle class

an economic encyclopedia of progress and poverty
2017
Contains encyclopedic entries based on subjects related to the American middle class.

The betrayal of the American dream

America?s unique prosperity is based on its creation of a middle class. In the twentieth century, that middle class provided the workforce, the educated skills, and the demand that gave life to the world?s greatest consumer economy. It was innovative and dynamic; it eclipsed old imperial systems and colonial archetypes. It gave rise to a dream: that if you worked hard and followed the rules you would prosper in America, and your children would enjoy a better life than yours.

American middle class

2019
The American Middle Class takes a close look at the segment of the population that lies between the poor and the rich, examining how this group has played an important role in US society and how it has changed in recent decades.
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The l?cals

a novel
2017
"Mark Firth is a home builder in Howland, Massachusetts in the early 2000s who, after being swindled by a finanical advisor, feels opportunity passing him by. In the paranoid days after 9/11, a New York money manager, Philip Hadi, moves his family to Howland and hires Mark to turn his house into a 'secure location.' When Howland's first selectman passes away suddenly, Hadi runs for office, and begins subtly transforming the town in his image."--Provided by publisher.
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Dream hoarders

how the American upper middle class is leaving everyone else in the dust, why that is a problem, and what to do about it
2017
"America is becoming a class-based society. It is now conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of the top 1 percent-especially the top 0.01 percent-and how the ultra-rich are concentrating income and prosperity while incomes for most other Americans are stagnant. But the most important, consequential, and widening gap in American society is between the upper middle class and everyone else"--Provided by publisher.
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Madame Bovary

2013
Nineteenth-century novel about Emma Bovary, the wife of a provincial doctor who seeks to escape her boredom by indulging in romantic fantasies and adulterous affairs.
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The upside of inequality

how good intentions undermine the middle class
2016
Edward Conard discusses his beliefs on the United States economy and the classes.

Madame Bovary

The wife of a provincial doctor seeks to escape her boredom by indulging in romantic fantasies and adulterous affairs in nineteenth-century France.

A doll's house

1998
Presents a stage adaptation of the late nineteenth-century drama about Nora, a woman whose husband expects her to be his petted little songbird, but who is in truth hiding a deceptive secret.

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