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Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class - And What We Can Do about It

Nationally syndicated radio host and bestselling author Thom Hartmann exposes the covert war conservatives, and corporations are waging against America's middle class, a war that's reducing the rest of us to a politically impotent working poor. This book asks: How did this happen? Who's benefiting? And how can we stop it?

Subject
politicseconomicshistorysocial sciencesociology
Themes
politicssocial issueseconomics
Setting
USA
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 249 pages

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