The fragile middle class : Americans in debt /
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:...
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
©2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Americans in financial crisis
- Middle-class and broke: the demography of bankruptcy
- Unemployed or underemployed
- Credit cards
- Sickness and injury
- Divorce
- Housing
- The middle class in debt.