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A comprehensive guide to safeguard your livelihood, income, and standard of living through the ups and downs of any economy. Most Americans, no matter what their economic circumstances, identify themselves as middle class. A recent Gallup poll showed that 63% consider themselves upper-middle or middle class. And they are feeling burned out and squeezed, under pressure to bring home more and more money just to maintain their standard of living. Middle Class Lifeboat is an answer to that pressure, a comprehensive guide to living a more stress-free lifestyle. * Part I: Safeguarding Your Livelihood: profiles the 53 best jobs to have to be self- sufficient whether the economy is up or down. * Part II: Safeguarding Your Income: 6 ways to extend your earnings, that don't always involve money. * Part III: Safeguarding Your Standard of Living: 10 off-the-grid lifestyle choices to increase your quality of life

Quality of life. --- Middle class. --- Finance, Personal. --- Budgets, Personal.

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Middle class --- Middle class --- Pressure groups --- Corporate power --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Government policy --- Economic conditions. --- United States --- United States --- Economic policy --- Politics and government

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Middle class --- Political activity. --- Québec (Province) --- Politics and government --- Social conditions.

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Norton Garfinkle paints a disquieting picture of America today: a nation increasingly divided between economic winners and losers, a nation in which the middle-class American Dream seems more and more elusive. Recent government policies reflect a commitment to a new supply-side winner-take-all Gospel of Wealth. Garfinkle warns that this supply-side economic vision favors the privileged few over the majority of American citizens striving to better their economic condition.Garfinkle employs historical insight and data-based economic analysis to demonstrate compellingly the sharp departure of the supply-side Gospel of Wealth from an American ideal that dates back to Abraham Lincoln-the vision of America as a society in which ordinary, hard-working individuals can get ahead and attain a middle-class living, and in which government plays an active role in expanding opportunities and ensuring against economic exploitation. Supply-side economic policies increase economic disparities and, Garfinkle insists, they fail on technical, factual, moral, and political grounds. He outlines a fresh economic vision, consonant with the great American tradition of ensuring strong economic growth, while preserving the middle-class American Dream.

Middle class --- Supply-side economics --- Democracy --- United States --- Economic conditions. --- Economic policy.