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Title The state of working America / Lawrence Mishel [and others].

Publication Info. Ithaca : ILR Press, 2012.

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Edition 12th ed.
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 505 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Overview : policy-driven inequality blocks living-standards growth for low- and middle-income Americans -- Income : already a "lost decade" -- Mobility : not offsetting growing inequality -- Wages : the top, and very top, outpace the rest -- Jobs : a function of demand -- Wealth : unrelenting disparities -- Poverty : the great recession adds injury to insult -- Appendix A : CPS income measurement -- Appendix B : wage measurement.
Summary Examines the distribution of income and wealth in the U.S. and how the economy affects the living standards of the American people.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Working class -- United States -- Economic conditions -- Statistics.
Working class.
United States.
Economic conditions.
Cost and standard of living -- United States -- Statistics.
Cost and standard of living.
United States -- Economic conditions -- Statistics.
Genre/Form Statistics.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Statistics.
Added Author Mishel, Lawrence R.
Other Form: Print version: State of working America. 12th ed. Ithaca, NY : ILR Press, 2012 9780801451706 (DLC) 2012043719 (OCoLC)794706488
ISBN 9780801466236 (electronic book)
0801466237 (electronic book)
9780801451706 (cloth alkaline paper)
9780801478550 (paperback alkaline paper)
0801451701 (alkaline paper)
0801478553 (paperback ; alkaline paper)