TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dobbs,Lou
TI  - War on the middle class: how the government, big business, and special interest groups are waging war on the American dream and how to fight back 
SN  - 0670037923
AV  - HT 690 .U6 D63 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Viking
KW  - Middle class
KW  - Government policy
KW  - United States
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Pressure groups
KW  - Corporate power
KW  - Elite (Social sciences)
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - 2001-2009
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-267) and index; War on the middle class -- Class warfare -- The best government money can buy -- The politics of deceit -- He says, she says -- The exorbitant cost of free trade -- Exporting America -- Broken borders -- A generation of failure -- Health care: it's enough to make you sick -- The best of intentions -- Taking back America -- The Declaration of Independence -- The Constitution of the United States -- The Bill of Rights -- The Constitution: Amendments 11-27
N2  - The middle class has never been so vulnerable. Its every feature is under assault by politicians and the lobbyists who court them, big-business corporations that are sending their jobs overseas, and a media that relies on sensationalism instead of facts when reporting the news. CNN host and commentator Dobbs looks at every aspect of the decline of the middle class--from a lack of political representation to America's corrupt health-care system--to demonstrate how the gap between America's newest haves and have-nots is no longer merely financial, but instead includes the erosion of education, employment, government, and community. Dobbs proposes a series of measures to resolve each issue and incite people, whose future is being mortgaged to benefit a powerful few, to preserve their rights and dreams.--From publisher description
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