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Pinched: How The Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures And What We Can Do About It (2011)

by Don Peck(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0307886522 (ISBN13: 9780307886521)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Crown

review 1: Pinched, has been one of the most influential books that I've ever read. It was incredibly informative with an astounding amount of statistical data included and discussed. I would highly recommend this book to everyone! It really explains what is going on because of the recession on so many levels, discusses the history behind things and eventually what can be done about it all. Overall a fantastic book!
review 2: Taking the 1870s, the 1930s and 1970s as guideposts, Peck looks for the long-range problems created by the recession--the decline of exurb communities like Phoenix and Las Vegas, the future health problems of kids who had sketchy health care early in life, frayed civic organizations that will be difficult to rebuild, older workers and retraining, wom... moreen increasingly being the majority in the job market, the cumulative effect of workers missing crucial early years of retirement investment and the always critically dangerous creation of a pool of underemployed, resentful men who thrill to the call of populist dog whistles. less

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