Up to Our Eyeballs: The Hidden Truths and Consequences of Debt in Today's America

James Lardner,Jose Garcia,Cindy Zeldin

ISBN 10: 1595582118 / ISBN 13: 9781595582119

Verlag: The New Press, 2008

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Up to Our Eyeballs: The Hidden Truths and Consequences of Debt in Today's America
• Verlag: The New Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1595582118
• ISBN-13: 9781595582119
• Einband: hardcover
• Zustand: Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket.

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In the increasingly volatile American economy, where close to 800 billion dollars is owed in credit card debt and where there has been a steady decline in work-related benefits like health insurance and pensions, consumer debt has become a fact of life. Credit cards are the new safety net being used by desperate middle and low income families to manage essential expenses such as groceries and medical bills. Here is a troubling examination of the causes and consequences of the explosive rise in American consumer debt.

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Jose Garcia is a senior research and policy associate at Dēmos with over ten years of experience working on civil rights, census advocacy, and socio-demographic analysis.

Jim Lardner is a journalist and the founder of Inequality.org.

Cindy Zeldin is the executive director of Georgians for a Healthy Future, a non-profit organization that advocates for access to quality, affordable health care for all Georgians through public education and outreach, coalition building, and public policy advocacy. She is a co-author (with José Garcia and James Lardner) of Up to Our Eyeballs: How Shady Lenders and Failed Economic Policies Are Drowning Americans in Debt (The New Press).