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Author Kamenetz, Anya, 1980-

Title Generation debt : how our future was sold out for student loans, credit cards, bad jobs, no benefits, and tax cuts for rich geezers--and how to fight back / Anya Kamenetz ; [includes a new chapter from the author].

Imprint New York : Riverhead Books, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.235 K128g 2007    ---  Available
Edition 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
Description 308 p. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-308).
Summary An emerging spokesperson for a new generation addresses the grim state of young people today--and tells us how we can, and must, save our future. The nature of youth is to question, so when 24-year-old Kamenetz started out as a journalist, she began asking hard questions for which no one seemed to have good answers. Why were her friends thousands of dollars in credit-card debt? Why did so many jobs for people under thirty-five involve a plastic name badge, last only for the short-term, and not include benefits? With record deficits and threats to Social Security, what kind of future was shaping up for the nation's kids? In this book, she talks to experts in economics, labor markets, the health-care industry, and education, and amasses a startling array of evidence that building a secure life is harder for young people today than it was thirty years ago.--From publisher description.
Subject Young adults -- United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
Young adults -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
College graduates -- United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
ISBN 1594482349 (pbk.)
9781594482342 (pbk.)
Standard No. AU@ 000042187149

 
    
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