Middle Class

A commonsense guide to eliminate wealth disparity in America and restore middle-class workers to economic prominence.

Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry record levels of debt. In a book that explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today, Robert Frank explains how increased concentrations of income and wealth at the top of the economic pyramid have set off "expenditure cascades" that raise the cost of achieving many basic goals for the middle class.

From the acclaimed author of Listen, Liberal and What’s the Matter with Kansas, a scathing collection of his incisive commentary on our cruel times—perfect for this political moment. What does a middle-class democracy look like when it comes apart? When, after forty years of economic triumph...

Каждый день по всему миру распространяются новости, информация и мнения различных групп людей - от элиты до лиц, создающих посты в соцсетях на насущные темы. Как в этом бесконечном потоке информации отличить факты от вымысла? Правду от лжи? Как определить, что реально, а что - нет?

En 1971, el dólar estadounidense se convirtió en dinero fiduciario. El dinero fiduciario es dinero del gobierno. Padre Rico llamó al dinero del gobierno #dinero falso#. El dinero falso hace a los ricos más ricos. El problema es que el dinero falso hace que los pobres y la clase media sean más pobres.

Trailer Dogs is the profoundly profane, hysterically funny, yet often poignant, story of survival in today's near-extinct middle class. After losing their small business and life savings to the government's unfathomable shutdown, the author and her husband are forced to sell their home and move into a travel trailer.

Zengin Baba Yoksul Baba, Robert Kiyosaki`nin öz yoksul babasının ve arkadaşının zengin babasının para ve yatırımlarla ilgili konularda Robert`in düşüncelerini nasıl değiştirdikleri hakkında bir hikayedir. Bu kitap, zengin olmak için yüksek bir gelir elde etmeniz gerektiği efsanesini yıkmakta ve para için çalışmak ile paranızın sizin için çalışmasını sağlamak arasındaki farkı açıklamaktadır.

Once a troublemaker, always a troublemaker? A reputation proves challenging to change in this “rock-solid school story” (Publishers Weekly) from Andrew Clements. Clayton Hensley is accustomed to trouble: There’s a folder of incident reports in Principal Kelling’s office that’s as thick...

‘If you aren’t reading B P Walter yet, now’s the time’ A. J. Finn 'Accomplished, dark and stylish: I will read anything B P Walter writes’ Gillian McAllister ‘A fantastically dark and twisted thriller’ Nikki Smith 'B P Walter’s characterisation is terrifyingly good in this...

Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum. Here is the poignant journey of a "minority student" who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation - from his past, his parents, his culture - and so describes the high price of "making it" in middle-class America.

In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel, get to know Jacky Ha-Ha, a funny class clown who loves to make people laugh—even when everything else in her life feels anything but silly. With her irresistible urge to tell a joke in every situation—even when she really, really...

Note: This is a summary and discussion of Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! by Robert Kiyosaki. Learn key concepts for your self-development or discussion group in 15 minutes without missing the highlights...guaranteed!

What makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, indeed, hatred) of Marmite – or is it something less easily defined? Beginning at the top of a muddy Gloucestershire slope at the Coopers Hill cheese-rolling contest and traversing a landscape of lawns and...

A Paperback Original A sharply constructed, death-defying story collection that dismantles the myths of white America, revealing race, class, and gender as fictions that can be taken apart and remade In his first story collection in fifteen years, Jess Row evokes white America—specifically...

Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. The Discomfort Zone is his intimate memoir of his development from a "small and fundamentally ridiculous person", through an adolescence both excruciating and strangely happy, into an adult with embarrassing and unexpected passions.

Both an epic history and an intimate family story, a startling account of the lives of Black cops in one Midwestern city. In the wake of the George Floyd protests, a Black police organization in Cleveland called the Black Shield was causing a stir. Officers broke ranks with their fellow cops...

Teaching in middle schools is a dynamic environment that calls for more than just subject-matter expertise. Effective administration is the cornerstone of any successful classroom, and in "The Zen of Classroom Management," Nissan Dawn provides a revolutionary method for addressing middle school issues. This extensive manual provides thirty useful tactics that are based on the mindfulness and adaptation principles of Zen, specifically designed for the special energy and complexities of the middle school setting.

Many an incredible story may have been told about young courageous men and women cycling the globe in search of adventure, covering vast distances at speed each day with not a care in the world. Well, this story is a little different. It is a story about a 350-pound middle-aged, disabled, working-class husband and father. I was never a regular cyclist, and I knew nothing about bicycle maintenance and repair. Solo, self-financed, with no support network and without any fixed route plan other than, “I’m going that way.” What could go wrong? I wondered.

Through meticulous research, author Gini Graham Scott paints a stark portrait of this growing division in modern society, drawing surprising accurate parallels to the Middle Ages and telling how our present course is ripe for social and political upheaval.

A “deeply revealing and vulnerable memoir” (Kate Schatz, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Do the Work) that earnestly reckons with whiteness and explores how understanding one’s own white identity can create the racial accountability needed in the national discourse. As the product...