Summary:

It’s not an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an
endangered species and that the American Dream of a secure,
comfortable standard of living has become as outdated as an Edsel
with an eight-track player. That the United States of America is in
danger of becoming a third world nation. The evidence is all around
us: Our industrial base is vanishing, taking with it the kind of jobs
that have formed the backbone of our economy for more than a century;
our education system is in shambles, making it harder for tomorrow’s
workforce to acquire the information and training it needs to land
good twenty-first century jobs; our infrastructure—our roads, our
bridges, our sewage and water, our transportation and electrical
systems—is crumbling; our economic system has been reduced to
recurring episodes of Corporations Gone Wild; our political system is
broken, in thrall to a small financial elite using the power of the
checkbook to control both parties. And America’s middle class, the
driver of so much of our economic success and political stability, is
rapidly disappearing, forcing us to confront the fear that we are
slipping as a nation – that our children and grandchildren will enjoy
fewer opportunities and face a lower standard of living than we did.
It’s the dark flipside of the American Dream – an American Nightmare
of our own making. Arianna Huffington, who, with the must-read
Huffington Post, has her finger on the pulse of America,
unflinchingly tracks the gradual demise of America as an industrial,
political, and economic leader. In the vein of her fiery bestseller
Pigs at the Trough, Third World America points fingers, names names,
and details who’s killing the American Dream. Finally, calling on the
can-do attitude that is part of America’s DNA, Huffington shows
precisely what we need to do to stop our freefall and keep America
from turning into a third world nation. Third World America is a
must-read for anyone disturbed by our country’s steady descent from
20th century superpower to backwater banana republic.From the
Hardcover edition.

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Dewey Class: 330.973 -- Economics

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Physical Description: 5.1"x7.9"x0.8"; 0.5 lb; 304 pages
Edition Info: Paperback; 2011-08-30

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