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The Fragile Middle Class:

Americans in Debt (Google eBook)
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Yale University Press, Mar 1, 2000 - Business & Economics - 400 pages
Since 1997, the number of American families filing for federal bankruptcy annually has exceeded one million. By most measures, those who file are members of the middle class -- a group that has long provided stability and vitality for the American economic system. This raises the troubling question: why, during the most remarkable period of prosperity in our history, are unprecedented numbers of Americans encountering such serious financial trouble?
  

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User Review  - Mary Whisner - Goodreads

This team of researchers (two sociologists and a law professor) has done very interesting empirical work on consumer bankruptcies in America using thousands of files from several jurisdictions (maintaining research protocols to protect privacy). (Yes, Prof. Warren is now Sen. Warren.) Read full review

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Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
Americans in Financial Crisis
MiddleClass and Broke The Demography of Bankruptcy
Unemployed or Underemployed
Credit Cards
Sickness and Injury
Divorce
Housing
The Middle Class in Debt
Data Used in This Study
Other Published Studies
Notes
Index
Copyright

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About the author (2000)

Teresa A. Sullivan is Vice President and Graduate Dean and professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin.

Elizabeth Warren is Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

Jay Lawrence Westbrook is Benno C. Schmidt Chair of Business Law at the University of Texas School of Law.

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