The illuminating, sometimes funny story about Hollywood, the Japanese, and the battle over the video recording industry.

Fast Forward: Hollywood, the Japanese & the VCR Wars

James Lardner

Literature & Fiction

Mentor Books

NYPD: A City and its Police

History

Thomas Reppetto

Americas

New York Henry Holt

Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences

Since the 1970s, the U.S. economy has been sending more and more of its rewards to fewer and fewer people. Once seen as a global exemplar of egalitarianism and middle-class opportunity, America has become the most unequal of developed nations—a land where corporate leaders earn hundreds of times the pay of average workers, and the only population group growing faster than millionaires is the uninsured. Statistics aside, this quarte-century-long trend has changed the texture of American life in ways that threaten our deepest values.
Drawing on the best and latest research, the contributors explore issues such as the real story the numbers tell about how America has changed; dimensions of inequality (education, health, and opportunity); causes of inequality, looking past the usual suspects of technology, trade, and immigration; the persistence of racial disparities; the erosion of democracy and community; and inequality as a moral and religious problem. Not just a catalog of inequality’s ills, the book concludes with a plausible and hopeful policy path—beyond redistribution—to a more just and humane economy.
 With contributions by: 
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<li>Joel Bakan </li>
<li>Heather Boushey and Christian E. Weller </li>
<li>Barbara Ehrenreich </li>
<li>Robert H. Frank </li>
<li>Robert M. Franklin </li>
<li>William Greider </li>
<li>Christopher Jencks </li>
<li>David Cay Johnston </li>
<li>Richard D. Kahlenberg </li>
<li>Robert Kuttner </li>
<li>James Lardner </li>
<li>Betsy Leondar-Wright </li>
<li>Charles Lewis </li>
<li>Meizhu Lui </li>
<li>Bill Moyers </li>
<li>Miles S. Rapoport and David A. Smith </li>
<li>Jonathan Rowe </li>
<li>Theda Skocpol </li>
<li>David A. Smith and Heather McGhee </li>
<li>Jim Wallis </li>
<li>Eric Wanner </li>
<li>David R. Williams and James Lardner</li>
</ul>

Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide In America And Its Poisonous Consequences

Business & Money

Economics

The New Press

At a time when Americans owe close to $800 billion in credit card debt, the myth is that credit cards are primarily financing America’s luxury lifestyles—helping white suburban families pay the costs attached to extravagant homes, luxury cars, and golf club memberships—or helping those who aspire to these lifestyles. Up to Our Eyeballs reveals the disturbing reality that credit cards are in fact the new “safety net,” being used by desperate middle- and low-income families to manage essential expenses.
In the increasingly volatile American economy, where a decline in work-related benefits like health insurance and pensions has accompanied a rising cost of living and increased job instability, consumer debt has become a fact of life for many American families. Up to Our Eyeballs is a troubling examination of the causes and consequences of this explosive rise in consumer debt.
Including a critical look at how the financial industry became the aggressive, hyper-profitable industry it is today, this book also incorporates solutions that will be of real relief to struggling households.

Up to Our Eyeballs: The Hidden Truths and Consequences of Debt in Today's America

José Garcia

Cindy Zeldin

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