Boiling Point: Democrats, Republicans, and the Decline of Middle-class ProsperityFrom the bestselling author of The Politics of Rich and Poor comes a scholarly examination of the steady decline of America's middle class--the book President Clinton singled out as the source that would help him solve the middle-class dilemma. |
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Americas Crisisthe Decline of the Middle | 3 |
The MiddleClass Political Response of | 58 |
PART | 83 |
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