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Broke : how debt bankrupts the middle class /
About 1.5 million households filed bankruptcy in the last year, making bankruptcy as common as college graduation and divorce. The recession has pushed more and more families into financial collapse-with unemployment, declines in retirement wealth, and falling house values destabilizing the American...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Studies in social inequality.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | About 1.5 million households filed bankruptcy in the last year, making bankruptcy as common as college graduation and divorce. The recession has pushed more and more families into financial collapse-with unemployment, declines in retirement wealth, and falling house values destabilizing the American middle class. Broke explores the consequences of this unprecedented growth in consumer debt and shows how excessive borrowing undermines the prosperity of middle class America. While the recession that began in mid-2007 has widened the scope of the financial pain caused by overindebtedness, the pro. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 305 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780804780582 0804780587 0804777004 9780804777001 |