Down the Up Escalator: How the 99 Percent Live

by Barbara Garson

Book Overview

One of our most incisive and committed journalists--author of the classic All the Livelong Day --shows us the real human cost of our economic follies. The Great Recession has thrown huge economic challenges at almost all Americans save the super-affluent few, and we are only now beginning to reckon up the human toll it is taking. Down the Up Escalator is an urgent dispatch from the front lines of our vast collective struggle to keep our heads above...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307475980
• ISBN13: 9780307475985
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.1"