Broke : how debt bankrupts the middle class /
About 1.5 million households filed bankruptcy in the last year, making bankruptcy as common as college graduation and divorce. The recession has pushed more and more families into financial collapse-with unemployment, declines in retirement wealth, and falling house values destabilizing the American...
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| Language: | English |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
2012
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| Series: | Studies in social inequality.
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Table of Contents:
- Driven by debt : bankruptcy and financial failure in American families / Katherine Porter
- A vulnerable middle class : bankruptcy and class status / Elizabeth Warren and Deborah Thorne
- Out of balance? : financial distress in U.S. households / Brian Bucks
- Home burdens : the high costs of homeownership / Jerry Anthony
- College lessons : financial risks of dropping out / Katherine Porter
- Striking out on their own : the self employed in bankruptcy / Robert Lawless
- No forwarding address : losing homes in bankruptcy / Marianne Culhane
- Women's work, women's worry : debt management in financially distressed families / Deborah Thorne
- The do-it-yourself mirage : complexity in the bankruptcy system / Angela Littwin
- Less forgiven : race and Chapter 13 bankruptcy / Dov Cohen and Robert Lawless
- Borrowing to the brink : consumer debt in America / Kevin Leicht
- The middle class at risk / Jacob Hacker.
