Third World America

How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream

Author: Arianna Huffington
ISBN: 9780307719966

It’s not an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species and that the American Dream of a secure, comfortable standard of living has become as outdated as an Edsel with an eight-track player.  That the United States of America is in danger of becoming a third world nation.   The evidence is all around us:   Our industrial base is vanishing, taking with it the kind of jobs that have formed the backbone of our economy for more than a century; our education system is in shambles, making it harder for tomorrow’s workforce to acquire the information and training it needs to land good twenty-first century jobs; our infrastructure—our roads, our bridges, our sewage and water, our transportation and electrical systems—is crumbling; our economic system has been reduced to recurring episodes of Corporations Gone Wild; our political system is broken, in thrall to a small financial elite using the power of the checkbook to control both parties.   And Americ

Publisher: Broadway Paperbacks
Publish Date: 2011

Subjects: Political Science / Political Economy, Business & Economics / General, Social Science / Social Classes

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