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War on the middle class : how the government, big business, and special interest groups are waging war on the American dream and how to fight back

Title
War on the middle class : how the government, big business, and special interest groups are waging war on the American dream and how to fight back / Lou Dobbs.
Author
Dobbs, Lou.
Publication
New York : Viking, 2006.

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x, 276 pages; 25 cm
Summary
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. CNN host and commentator 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. Dobbs proposes a series of measures to resolve each issue and incite people, whose future is being mortgaged to benefit a powerful few, to preserve their rights and dreams.--From publisher description.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-267) and index.
Contents
1. War on the middle class -- 2. Class warfare -- 3. The best government money can buy -- 4. The politics of deceit -- 5. He says, she says -- 6. The exorbitant cost of free trade -- 7. Exporting America -- 8. Broken borders -- 9. A generation of failure -- 10. Health care : it's enough to make you sick -- 11. The best of intentions -- 12. Taking back America -- The Declaration of Independence -- The Constitution of the United States -- The Bill of Rights -- The Constitution : Amendments 11-27.
ISBN
0670037923
LCCN
  • 2006050097
  • 9780670037926
OCLC
  • ocm70775778
  • SCSB-5285335
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries