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Squeezed : why our families can't afford America / Alissa Quart.

"<Strong>Squeezed</strong><strong>weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique </strong><strong>to show</strong> <strong>how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class America...

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Main Author: Quart, Alissa (Author)
Other title:Why our families can't afford America
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Middle class > United States > Economic conditions.
Middle class > Economic conditions.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Inconceivable : pregnant and squeezed
  • Hyper-educated and poor
  • Extreme day care : the deep cost of American work
  • Outclassed : life at the bottom of the top
  • The nanny's struggle
  • Uber dads : moonlighting in the gig economy
  • The second act industry : or the midlife do-over myth
  • Squeezed houses
  • The rise of 1 percent television
  • Squeezed by the robots
  • The secret life of inequality.

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