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Author:

Kristof, Nicholas D., 1959- author.

Title:

Tightrope : Americans reaching for hope / Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

United States--Social conditions--1980-
United States--Economic conditions--2009-
Poor--United States--Social conditions.
Working class--United States--Social conditions.
Case studies.

Other Authors:

WuDunn, Sheryl, 1959- author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The kids on the number 6 school bus -- "We're no. 61!" -- When jobs disappear -- American aristocracy -- How America went astray -- Drug dealers in lab coats -- Losing the war on drugs -- Up by the bootstraps -- Deaths of despair -- Interventions that work -- Universal health care: one day, one town -- Homeless in a rich nation -- The escape artists -- A shot in the face -- God save the family -- The marriage of true minds -- We eat our young -- Raising troubled kids -- Creating more escape artists -- America regained -- Appendix: Ten steps you can take in the next ten minutes to make a difference.

Summary:

A plea -- deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans -- to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure.

ISBN:

0525655085
9780525655084

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1091236838

LCCN:

2019014592

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