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c2010., W. W. Norton & Co. Call No: 330.973 L675b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The author examines the causes of the U.S. stock market crash of 2008 and its relation to overpriced real estate, bad mortgages, shareholder demand for excessive profits, and the growth of toxic derivatives.
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2006., Riverhead Books/Penguin Call No: 330.973 K15g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An emerging spokesperson for a new generation addresses the grim state of young people today--and tells us how we can, and must, save our future. The nature of youth is to question, SO when 24-year-old Kamenetz started out as a journalist, she began asking hard questions for which no one seemed to have good answers. Why were her friends thousands of dollars in credit-card debt? Why did so many jobs for people under thirty-five involve a plastic name badge, last only for the short-term, and not include benefits? With record deficits and threats to Social Security, what kind of future was shaping up for the nation's kids? In this book, she talks to experts in economics, labor markets, the health-care industry, and education, and amasses a startling array of evidence that building a secure life is harder for young people today than it was thirty years ago.--From publisher description.
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By Stein, Joel2019., Grand Central Publishing Call No: 818.602 S819i Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Stein spends a week in Roberts County, Texas, which had the highest percentage of Trump voters in the country. He goes to the home of Trump-loving Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams; meets people who create fake news; and finds the new elitist organizations merging both right and left to fight the populists.
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2017., Little, Brown and company Call No: 305.2420973 H315k Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Millennials have been stereotyped as lazy, entitled, narcissistic, and developmentally delayed. In fact, they are the hardest working and most educated generation in American history, a generation that poured unprecedented amounts of time and money into preparing themselves for the 21st century market. Yet here they are: poorer, more medicated, more precariously employed, and with less of a social safety net than their parents or even their grandparents. To find out why, Malcolm Harris, himself a Millennial, decided to conduct a meticulous, data driven analysis of the cultural, technological, and (especially) economic forces over the past 40 years that have shaped Millennial lives. What he discovered, and the sense he made of it, will change how you see yourself, your country, and our future - whether you're a Millennial or not. Examining broad trends like the professionalization of childhood, runaway student debt, the rise of the intern, mass incarceration, social media, and more, Kids These Days charts the rise of an American ethos so normalized that we forget to notice it: the treatment of children as investments, and he dares us to confront the consequences when those children grow up. Gripping, mercilessly argued, and deeply informed, Kids These Days is essential reading, not only for Millennials but for anyone ready to take a hard look at how we got here and where we're headed if we don't change course fast"--
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By Romney, Mitt2010., St. Martin's Press Call No: 320.60973 R756n Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Reacting to President Obama's remarks in which he repeatedly apologizes for America's international power, Romney asserts that American strength is essential--not just for our own well-being, but for the world's, and proposes a new commitment to citizenship. He outlines simple solutions to rebuild industry, create good jobs, reduce out of control spending on entitlements and healthcare, dramatically improve education, and restore a military battered by eight years of war.
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c2010., General, Simon & Schuster Call No: 658.8 U55w Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: As large numbers of women become steadily wealthier, more powerful, and more independent, their choices and preferences are transforming our commercial environment in a variety of important ways, from the cars we drive to the food we eat; from how we buy and furnish our homes to how we gamble, play, and use the Internetin short, how we spend our time and money.
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-- End of the American era.c2009., John Wiley & Sons Call No: 330.973 P199w Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
