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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337861903321

Autore

Unger Abraham

Titolo

The Death and Life of the American Middle Class [[electronic resource] ] : A Policy Agenda for American Jobs Creation / / by Abraham Unger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-02444-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 55pages)

Disciplina

305.550973

Soggetti

Public policy

United States—Politics and government

Public Policy

US Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. What Happened to the American Middle Class? -- 2. A Path Forward for Jobs Creation -- 3. The Politics of Growth.

Sommario/riassunto

This book addresses what is perhaps the most salient issue in American politics today: the decline of the middle class. It is this single issue that drove the outlier presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump to national prominence, and undergirded the electoral victory of Donald Trump. While there are other longer studies exploring in detail the structural forces, most prominently the loss of manufacturing in the US, that have caused the contraction of the middle class, none offer in shorter form practical policy solutions directly geared towards practitioners in government and the private sector. This work focuses specifically on combining both an academic analysis of the subject combined with detailed policy recommendations. These recommendations are designed to be implemented; they take into account the latest set of real world political variables such as actual current legislative and institutional agendas currently in play on the federal and local levels. .