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Up to Our Eyeballs: The Hidden Truths and Consequences of Debt in Today's America

1 review
James Lardner, Jose Garcia, ...

New Press, 2008

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This book is extremely ideological - anti-corporate, anti-capitalist, etc. Given the authors' affiliations (Demos - a far left think tank), this is not surprising. The points/arguments advanced throughout the book are one sided and the only time the authors discuss the personal responsibility of individuals for their own debt levels is to excuse it and explain it away. In contrast, the ...

Building the grand alliance: collaboration between low- and middle-income people is one of the keys to ...
Tamara Draut

Thomson Gale, 2007

This digital document is an article from Sojourners Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2007. The length of the article is 992 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Building the grand alliance: collaboration ...

A house of cards: current levels of household debt are unsustainable.(comment): An article from: Dollars & ...
Tamara Draut, Adria Scharf

Economic Affairs Bureau, 2005

This digital document is an article from Dollars & Sense, published by Economic Affairs Bureau on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 879 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: A house of cards: current levels of ...

Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead

58 reviews
Tamara Draut

Anchor, 2007

Hard Times are here....
...and harder times, they are a-comin'. Tamara Draut writes what is true. My generation (Gen X) is in deep trouble. No matter if we "go by the playbook", as she writes, no matter what steps we take, we'll still end up bilked and impoverished because of a government that only cares about lining the pockets of the super-rich few. I'm only in my mid-20s, and I've been a "bouncer", and "tempster", ...