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American dream dying : the changing economic lot of the least advantaged /
"The American Dream" means many things to many people, but at its core are three economic goals: a rising standard of living, financial security, and upward mobility. During the last 30 years, the economy of the United States has been radically transformed. In the same time period, the pos...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
c2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The American Dream" means many things to many people, but at its core are three economic goals: a rising standard of living, financial security, and upward mobility. During the last 30 years, the economy of the United States has been radically transformed. In the same time period, the possibilities for realizing the American Dream have also been radically transformed, and for the worse, particularly for those at the bottom of the income distribution. This book is based upon two premises. The first is that the pervasiveness of the withering of the American Dream across this country is a story. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 127 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781442201972 1282480642 9781282480643 1442201975 |