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List of Figures | p. vii |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Foreword | p. 1 |
The Great Recession: The damage done and the rot revealed | p. 5 |
The Great Recession's Trigger: Housing bubble leads to jobs crisis | p. 11 |
Fallout: the job-market | p. 16 |
Fallout: broader measures of economic security-poverty, health insurance, and net wealth | p. 25 |
The Policy Response to the Great Recession: What was done, and did it work? | p. 29 |
The dynamics of the Great Recession | p. 32 |
Recovery Act controversies: what was in it? | p. 33 |
Recovery Act controversies: did it work at all? | p. 35 |
Recovery Act controversies: why has consumer and not government spending led the recovery? | p. 41 |
The Great Recession Ended More Than a Year Ago-so,ö Mission Accomplishedö? | p. 45 |
Apathy, not overreach | p. 47 |
Exchange rate policy | p. 48 |
Monetary policy | p. 49 |
Fiscal policy | p. 49 |
Clear economics, fuzzy politics | p. 50 |
The Cracked Foundation Revealed by the Great Recession | p. 53 |
Falling minimum wage | p. 55 |
Assault on workers' right to organize | p. 55 |
Global integration for America's workers and insulation for elites | p. 56 |
The rise of finance | p. 56 |
Abandoning full employment as a target | p. 57 |
You get the economy you choose | p. 64 |
Incomes in the 30 years before the Great Recession: growing slower and less equal | p. 65 |
Is everybody getting richer but the rich are just getting richer faster? | p. 70 |
Why have typical families' incomes and overall economic growth de-linked? | p. 74 |
The arithmetic of rising inequality: falling wage growth for most American workers | p. 74 |
The economics of rising inequality | p. 74 |
Lower wage growth did not buy greater economic security or sustained progress in closing racial gaps | p. 83 |
How did American families cope with lower wage-growth and rising insecurity? | p. 86 |
Where to from Here? | p. 93 |
Bibliography | p. 99 |
About EPI | p. 101 |
About the Author | p. 103 |
The State of Working America Web site | p. 104 |
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