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Porter, Katherine (Katherine M.)
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332.70973 22
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2012
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About 1.5 million households filed bankruptcy in the last year, making bankruptcy as common as college graduation and divorce. The recession has pushed more and more families into financial collapse-with unemployment, declines in retirement wealth, and falling house values destabilizing the American middle class. Broke explores the consequences of this unprecedented growth in consumer debt and shows how excessive borrowing undermines the prosperity of middle class America. While the recession that began in mid-2007 has widened the scope of the financial pain caused by overindebtedness, the pro.
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Sullivan, Teresa A., 1949- author.
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332.750673 22
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2020
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"Why have so many middle-class Americans encountered so much financial trouble? In this classic analysis of hard-pressed families, the authors discover that financial stability for many middle-class Americans is all too fragile. The authors consider the changing cultural and economic factors that threaten financial security and what they imply for the future vitality of the middle class. A new preface examines the persistent and new threats that have emerged since the original publication"--Publisher's description
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Gold, Charles H., 1935-
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818.409
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2003
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Regan, Milton C.
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346.73078 22
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2004
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Bertola, Giuseppe.
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332.743 22
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2006
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Rickett, C. E. F.
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343.071 22
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2003
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Consumer protection law in the age of globalisation poses new challenges for policy-makers. Leading scholars outline key problems faced in adopting consumer laws to the global marketplace. Topics include standard form contracts, the legal challenges posed by mass infection (such as CJD), consumers and services, and consumer bankruptcy law.
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Smith, David Barton.
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362.10973 22
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2010
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This book provides unique insights into the current heated healthcare reform debate in the United States and the expanding US$2 trillion industry that is the focus of public concern. The author's extensive experience as an educator, consultant, researcher and author of five well-received books on that system provides a unique resource of largely unreported cases to mine. These vivid case studies weave the history, richness and complexity of the problems faced by patients and service providers into fascinating Byzantine intrigues. They illustrate the underlying structural problems that have produced disparities in treatment, escalating costs, unsafe and inadequate care, the demoralization of the many decent and committed people who work within the system and passionate calls for reform. Highly readable, the book also offers a candor and richness in detail that is typically lacking in textbooks, academic journal articles and the popular press.
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