Financial crisis in American households : the basic expenses that bankrupt the middle class / Joseph Nathan Cohen.
Material type: TextPublisher: Santa, California : Praeger, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, [2017]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781440832222
- 1440832226
- Households -- Economic aspects -- United States
- Cost and standard of living -- United States
- Middle class -- United States
- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
- Households -- United States
- M�enages (Statistique) -- Aspect �economique -- �Etats-Unis
- Co�ut et niveau de la vie -- �Etats-Unis
- Classes moyennes -- �Etats-Unis
- Crise financi�ere mondiale, 2008-2009
- M�enages (Statistique) -- �Etats-Unis
- Economics
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions
- Cost and standard of living
- Households
- Households -- Economic aspects
- Middle class
- United States
- Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009)
- 2008-2009
- 339.4/20973 23
- HC106.84 .C643 2017
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.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 17, 2017).
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.
Added to collection customer.56279.3
There are no comments on this title.