The Fragile Middle Class, Elizabeth Warren
The Fragile Middle Class, Elizabeth Warren
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The Fragile Middle Class
Americans in Debt

Author: Elizabeth Warren, Teresa A. Sullivan, Jay Lawrence Westbrook

Narrator: Suzie Althens

Unabridged: 11 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Kalorama

Published: 02/18/2020

Synopsis

Why have so many middle-class Americans encountered so much financial trouble?

In this classic analysis of hard-pressed families, the authors discover that financial stability for many middle-class Americans is all too fragile. The authors consider the changing cultural and economic factors that threaten financial security and what they imply for the future vitality of the middle class. A new preface examines the persistent and new threats that have emerged since the original publication.

About Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren is the senior US Senator from Massachusetts. A former Harvard Law School professor, she is the author of ten books, including A Fighting Chance, a national bestseller that received widespread critical acclaim.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary

This team of researchers (two sociologists and a law professor) has done very interesting empirical work on consumer bankruptcies in America using thousands of files from several jurisdictions (maintaining research protocols to protect privacy). (Yes, Prof. Warren is now Sen. Warren.)......more

Goodreads review by Behrooz

I listened to the unabridged 12-hour audio version of this title (read by Suzie Althens, Yale U. Press, 2020). This is a re-issue of a 2000 book, with a new preface that examines the persistence of old threats and emergence of new threats to the American middle-class in the two decades since the boo......more

Goodreads review by Carol

An explanation of the gradual eradication of the middle class, the evils of credit cards, and why we need Liz Warren in the White House.......more

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