Not Keeping Up with Our Parents: The Decline of the Professional Middle Class - Softcover

Mooney, Nan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807011398 ISBN 13: 9780807011393

Publisher: Beacon Press, 2009

Synopsis

Not Keeping Up with Our Parents Drawing on more than 100 interviews with diverse families across America, Mooney explores the financial struggles of today's professional middle class, delving into their sense of economic security and their plans for and fears about the future. Full description

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Review:

Think it can't happen to you? Read Mooney's book . . . . then think again . . . An alarming and important book, which should bring readers out of ignorance, embarrassment or bewilderment and into harsh enlightenment.---Barbara Lloyd McMichael, Seattle Times

"An excellent analysis of the problems facing the large and important professional middle class."--Booklist

"With great empathy and infectious alarm, Nan Mooney charts the travails of America's middle class in this important book."--Anya Kamenetz, author of Generation Debt

"If you're wondering why, in our age of plenty, the financial treadmill keeps moving faster and faster for America's increasingly educated-and increasingly insecure-middle class, you owe it to yourself to read this book. It's all here: the big trends, the compelling portraits, the ideas for personal and political change, and the call to arms we so desperately need." --Jacob S. Hacker, author of The Great Risk Shift

"We hear a lot about the runaway wealth of American professionals. In this important book, Nan Mooney reminds us that most have no such luck. Working in jobs they love provides a sense of moral worth but doesn't cover the bills for teachers, legal aid lawyers, practicing artists, and others. Something has gone wrong in America, and this book gives us a grip on the crisis." --Katherine Newman, coauthor of The Missing Class and the Forbes Class of 1941 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton

About the Author:

Nan Mooney is the author of I Can't Believe She Did That: Why Women Betray Other Women at Work and My Racing Heart: The Passionate World of Thoroughbreds and the Track. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Slate, The Daily News, The Daily Telegraph (UK), The Seattle Weekly, Women's eNews, and various other publications.

Her books have been featured in Elle, O, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Daily News, Salon and USA Today, among others, She has also appeared on NPR (Marketplace, Morning Edition, Only a Game), The Joan Hamburg Show, Voice of America and numerous local radio and TV shows. Having worked in the film and publishing industries, she is currently a free lance writer and can be reached through her website, www.nanmooney.com. She lives in Seattle.

About this edition

• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0807011398
• ISBN 13: 9780807011393
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264