The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy (Record no. 98000)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 978-0262535298
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Classification number 330
Cutter TEM
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Personal name Temin Peter
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Title The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc The MIT Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2018
Place of publication, distribution, etc London
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Extent 268
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Summary, etc Why the United States has developed an economy divided between rich and poor and how racism helped bring this about.<br/>The United States is becoming a nation of rich and poor, with few families in the middle. In this book, MIT economist Peter Temin offers an illuminating way to look at the vanishing middle class. Temin argues that American history and politics, particularly slavery and its aftermath, play an important part in the widening gap between rich and poor. Temin employs a well-known, simple model of a dual economy to examine the dynamics of the rich/poor divide in America, and outlines ways to work toward greater equality so that America will no longer have one economy for the rich and one for the poor.<br/><br/>Many poorer Americans live in conditions resembling those of a developing country—substandard education, dilapidated housing, and few stable employment opportunities. And although almost half of black Americans are poor, most poor people are not black. Conservative white politicians still appeal to the racism of poor white voters to get support for policies that harm low-income people as a whole, casting recipients of social programs as the Other—black, Latino, not like "us." Politicians also use mass incarceration as a tool to keep black and Latino Americans from participating fully in society. Money goes to a vast entrenched prison system rather than to education. In the dual justice system, the rich pay fines and the poor go to jail.<br/><br/>Source: https://www.amazon.in/Vanishing-Middle-Class-Prejudice-Economy/dp/0262535297/ref=sr_1_1?crid=I7PNKL4C1HR7&keywords=9780262535298&qid=1692861770&sprefix=case+in+point+11+complete+case%2Caps%2C424&sr=8-1
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Dual Economy
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Reference book Main Library Main Library Economics 13/07/2023 Amazon 1350.00 Foreign Book   330 TEM 118918 05/12/2023 23/11/2023 1350.00 Book

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