How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back
by Lou Dobbs
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Published Oct 2006
288 pages
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion
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The middle class has never been so vulnerable. Its every feature is under assault by politicians and the lobbyists who court them, big-business corporations that are sending their jobs overseas, and a media that relies on sensationalism instead of facts when reporting the news. In a sweeping analysis, Dobbs looks at every aspect of the decline of the middle class - from a lack of political representation to America’s corrupt health-care system - to demonstrate how the gap between America’s newest haves and have-nots is no longer merely financial, but instead includes the erosion of education, employment, government, and community.
Starred Review. "Agree with him or not, Dobbs remains a refreshingly bold thinker who refuses to be intellectually pigeonholed. " - PW.
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