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An interview with Nan Mooney at Salon.com
"There is this mythology that it's the individual's
fault, because America is the country of individualism.
These personal-finance books promote the idea that you
can be a millionaire too. And I think it takes the
pressure off government and employers to help."
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"(Not) Keeping Up With Our Parents" at Alternet
Praise for Not Keeping Up With
Our Parents
“What happens when the center cannot hold? 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
“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: Portraits of the
Near Poor in America
“A
book for the distressed and confused because their life
plan has gone to pieces. Mooney illuminates what has
happened to them—and why.”
—Nicholas Von Hoffman, NY Observer columnist and regular
contributor to The Nation
“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
“This is the kind of book that you wish was fiction.
But, as Nan Mooney’s incisive new book shows, the fact
is that this generation has inherited an economy with
too many low-paying no-benefit jobs and an eroding
middle class. Millions of young families wonder where
they went wrong when, in fact, their economic problems
are largely the result of policies that generated higher
incomes for a select few and rising economic insecurity
for the rest of us. In this timely book, Ms. Mooney
pushes us to demand an economy that works for all of us,
not just the very wealthy.”
Heather Boushey, senior economist, Center for
Economic and Policy Research
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