| Description |
xvi, 235 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Dismantling the middle class: Rigging the game -- Casualties of the new economic order -- Downward mobility -- Life on the expense account -- Indifferent congress -- Wall street's greatest accomplishments -- Losing out to Mexico: What are we going to do now? -- Rush to the border -- Shifting taxes--from them to you: Magic wand -- Middle-class tax squeeze -- Legalized loan-sharking -- runaway write-offs -- Tax breaks for frauds -- Lucrative business of bankruptcy: $500.00-an-hour jobs -- Bankrupted by debt -- Paper jobs -- Foreign connection: Global economy -- Exporting jobs -- Global moneymen--beyond the law -- High cost of deregulation: Wrecking industries and lives -- Struggling to survive -- Deregulation bandwagon--and its victims -- Playing Russian roulette with health insurance: End of the American dream -- Losing health benefits in bankruptcy -- Death of a department store -- Fifty years old and out of work -- Simplicity pattern--irresistible to raiders: Raiders attack -- Trouble starts -- Tax gimmicks and givebacks -- Manufacturing plants everywhere -- Disappearing pensions: Frightening future -- Pension raiders -- Junk pensions -- Dream pensions -- Political Connection: Investing in Capitol Hill -- Caring for the privileged -- Destructive debt -- How a tax break was saved. |
| Subject |
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-
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United States -- Economic policy -- 1981-1993.
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| Added Author |
Steele, James B.
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| ISBN |
0836270010: $6.95 |
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