TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen,Joseph Nathan
TI  - Financial crisis in American households: the basic expenses that bankrupt the middle class 
SN  - 9781440832222
AV  - HC106.84 .C643 2017
U1  - 339.4/20973 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Santa, California
PB  - Praeger, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO
KW  - Households
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Cost and standard of living
KW  - Middle class
KW  - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
KW  - M�enages (Statistique)
KW  - Aspect �economique
KW  - �Etats-Unis
KW  - Co�ut et niveau de la vie
KW  - Classes moyennes
KW  - Crise financi�ere mondiale, 2008-2009
KW  - Economics
KW  - bicssc
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Macroeconomics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Economic Conditions
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgments -- America's household financial crisis -- A snapshot of U.S. household finances -- Financial insecurity -- The big picture -- Runaway spending -- Necessary "necessities"? -- A look abroad -- The choice -- Notes -- Index
N2  - More than one-third of Americans could not sustain a basic livelihood without government assistance. Almost 60 percent of seniors are dependent on the government. Why is this? This book examines how the U.S. economy's failure to deliver high-quality, universally accessible basic necessities is creating acute financial insecurity among the American middle class
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