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1 We Are Writing This Book Because We Failed And That's NOT GOOD ENOUGH |
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2 Who's Middle Class After All? |
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17 | (10) |
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3 The Middle Class: Isn't It the Engine Of America? |
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27 | (15) |
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4 What's Happened Over the Last Three Decades, And Now |
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42 | (22) |
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How George W. Bush Made Everything Worse |
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61 | (3) |
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5 The Attack On Higher Education |
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64 | (17) |
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78 | (3) |
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6 "A `Second Opinion' On the Economic Health of the American Middle Class"; or, the Fog Machine and the Denial of All Their Problems |
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81 | (11) |
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90 | (2) |
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7 Smarter Than You Think: The Financial Crisis |
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92 | (16) |
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8 Smarter Than You Think? Then What About Keynes? |
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108 | (18) |
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9 Smarter Than You Think? Corrupted Government |
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126 | (18) |
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142 | (2) |
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10 The Elites Deplore Class Warfare, But What About The Voters? |
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144 | (16) |
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160 | (12) |
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When All Is Said and Done, There's a Lot Better Chance the Middle Class Will See Better Times When a Democrat Is President |
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170 | (2) |
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12 Why Do You Feel Better About 2012? Because We Have a Story To Tell |
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172 | (14) |
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Honoring Stay-at-Home Moms |
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184 | (2) |
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13 Paul Ryan Has The Answer |
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186 | (20) |
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197 | (4) |
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The Strange Story of Food Stamps |
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201 | (5) |
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14 And Do You Think You Can Really Do Something About It? Sure Do |
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206 | (13) |
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Getting Real: Unplug the Climate-Change Fog Machine |
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214 | (5) |
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15 The Elite Consensus On Entitlements and Deficits |
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219 | (19) |
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229 | (6) |
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Stan's Letter to Tom Friedman |
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235 | (3) |
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16 Let's Get Serious About What Really Matters: Health Care |
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238 | (11) |
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17 Doing Something About It: Numbers |
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249 | (21) |
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270 | (11) |
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19 Triumph Over Political Dysfunction |
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281 | (16) |
| Acknowledgments |
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297 | (4) |
| Notes |
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