Up to Our Eyeballs - The Hidden Truths and Consequences of Debt in Today''s America

Informationen zum Autor Jose Garcia is a senior research and policy associate at D¿mos with over ten years of experience working on civil rights, census advocacy, and socio-demographic analysis.Jim Lardner is a journalist and the founder of Inequality.org. Cindy Zeldin is the executive director of Georgians for a Healthy Future, a non-profit organization that advocates for access to quality, affordable health care for all Georgians through public education and outreach, coalition building, and public policy advocacy. She is a co-author (with José Garcia and James Lardner) of Up to Our Eyeballs: How Shady Lenders and Failed Economic Policies Are Drowning Americans in Debt (The New Press). Klappentext This groundbreaking work reveals the disturbing reality that credit cards are in fact the new "safety net" being used by desperate middle- and low-income families to manage essential expenses in an increasingly volatile American economy.

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• Autori: Batchelder Myra, Jose Garcia, Jose Zeldin Garcia, James Lardner, Cindy Zeldin, Zeldin Cindy
• Editore: New press usa
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 04.03.2008
• EAN: 9781595582119
• ISBN: 978-1-59558-211-9
• Pagine: 256
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Economia politica; USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Personal Finance / General, Personal finance, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, United States of America, USA