The Forgotten Americans: An Economic Agenda for a Divided Nation

by Isabel Sawhill

Book Overview

A sobering account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation's economic inequalities

One of the country's leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society--economic, cultural, and political--and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of jobs to trade and technology has left a significant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300230362
• ISBN13: 9780300230369
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"