Third World America
How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
Huffington's alarm at a hollowing-out middle class, crumbling infrastructure and a political system she argues has stopped working for ordinary people.
Huffington’s warning that the United States is hollowing out from the middle: a shrinking middle class, decaying infrastructure, a broken political system and a financial sector that privatised its gains and socialised its losses. Written after the 2008 crisis, it is an angry, data-driven argument that the country is sliding toward the conditions it once associated with the developing world, paired with a call to reverse course.
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