Generation debt : how our future was sold out for student loans, credit cards, bad jobs, no benefits, and tax cuts for rich geezers--and how to fight back / Anya Kamenetz ; [includes a new chapter from the author].
An emerging spokesperson for a new generation addresses the grim state of young people today--and tells us how we can, and must, save our future. The nature of youth is to question, SO when 24-year-old Kamenetz started out as a journalist, she began asking hard questions for which no one seemed to have good answers. Why were her friends thousands of dollars in credit-card debt? Why did so many jobs for people under thirty-five involve a plastic name badge, last only for the short-term, and not include benefits? With record deficits and threats to Social Security, what kind of future was shaping up for the nation's kids? In this book, she talks to experts in economics, labor markets, the health-care industry, and education, and amasses a startling array of evidence that building a secure life is harder for young people today than it was thirty years ago.--From publisher description.
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- ISBN: 9781594482342 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1594482349 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xvii, 308 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2007.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-305). |
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Kirtland Community College Library | HQ 799.7 .K36 2007 | 30536083 | General Collection | Available | - |