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 enlarge | Author: Nan Mooney
Publisher: Beacon Press
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 414772
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 080701138X
Dewey Decimal Number: 330.973008622
EAN: 9780807011386
ASIN: 080701138X
Publication Date: May 15, 2008
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Condition: BRAND NEW AND IN PERFECT CONDITION!!! crisp, clean text / tight spine / clean cover / ENJOY!
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 awesome book June 13, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I thought this book was quite fantastic. Growing up my friends and I were told that if we went to college and got "a good job" we would be able to own our own home and send our own children to college. Well, guess what? This has turned out to not be even remotely true. I think this book is very important and is addressing a problem that I see everywhere and yet does not seem to get talked about anywhere. The housing market collapse and resulting economic slowdown have just been icing on the cake. Thank you Nan Mooney for putting into words
the experience of the disappearance of the middle class.
an eye-opener June 13, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
My curiosity about (Not)Keeping Up With Our Parents was piqued after going to a reading by the author at a local bookstore. After reading it I was a bit shocked, but in a good way. I thought the interviews were well balanced and helped to shed light on this problem that many, many people have but are embarassed to talk about.
A thoughtful look at values and money June 11, 2008
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I'm not sure what book the one-star reviewer read. In [Not] Keeping Up with Our Parents, Nan Mooney explains how life has gotten harder for middle-class professionals. While housing, health insurance, food and student loan costs have risen, incomes have not. What's more, social programs such as Social Security and corporate pension programs have dwindled. This means that people who've made reasonable decisions--to study, and to pursue responsible careers that interest them--are having a hard time making ends meet. One of her fundamental points is that the crunch isn't necessarily the individual's fault. It's not that we're frittering away our money on lattes. Rather, it's that life has gotten more expensive, and our incomes haven't kept up. It's an important book, and a timely one. Here's hoping as we reshape our country with the upcoming presidential election, that we elect leaders who want to keep the middle class dream alive.
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