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Killer Politics: How Big Money and Bad Politics Are Destroying the Great American Middle Class
Killer Politics How Big Money and Bad Politics Are Destroying the Great American Middle Class
Author: Ed Schultz
The middle class, where the greatness of this nation is rooted, is under siege by an increasingly unethical system, managed by economic vampires who are sucking the lifeblood out of the American family and ripping the heart out of democracy itself. Big money--and the politicians who are swayed by it--play both parties against each other, usin...  more »

--from Killer Politics According to a 2008 Pew Report, more than half of all Americans self-identify as middle class--but the actual number of Americans with middle-class incomes is declining. The middle class is going away. As increasing numbers of Americans are faced with obstacles to education, health care, jobs, and equity, the middle class as a financial bracket is being replaced by the middle class as little more than a state of mind. The richest Americans are growing exponentially wealthier, while the rest of us struggle to bear the financial and emotional burdens of an increasingly broken system. In Killer Politics, Ed Schultz pulls the wool back from our eyes, shows us what the state of the middle class really is, and gives us the tools we need to fight back.
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ISBN-13: 9781401323783
ISBN-10: 1401323782
Publication Date: 6/1/2010
Pages: 224
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Hyperion
Book Type: Hardcover
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