America: What Went Wrong?

by Barlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B.

• ISBN13: 9780836270013
• ISBN10: 0836270010
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-01-01
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Summary

The culmination of two years of research, and based on a series of articles in the Philadelphia Enquirer, two Pulitzer Prize-winning authors reveal how everyone's lives have been touched by public acts and private greed. Barlett and Steele deftly expose the shifting tax burdens, deregulation, foreign investment, bankruptcy laws, and other changes that have reeked havoc on the middle class.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Changing Face of America
Dismantling the Middle Class	p. 1
Losing Out to Mexico	p. 31
Shifting Taxes--From Them to You	p. 40
The Lucrative Business of Bankruptcy	p. 66
The Foreign Connection	p. 88
The High Cost of Deregulation	p. 105
Playing Russian Roulette With Health Insurance	p. 124
Simplicity Pattern--Irresistible to Raiders	p. 143
The Disappearing Pensions	p. 162
The Political Connection	p. 189
Epilogue: Rewriting the Government Rule Book	p. 212
Note on Sources	p. 220
How to Write Or Telephone Rule-Makers	p. 221
Index	p. 229
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