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(Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents: The Decline of the Professional Middle Class Paperback – May 1, 2009

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Drawing on more than a hundred interviews with people all across America, (Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents explores how stagnant wages, debt, and escalating costs for tuition, health care, and home ownership are jeopardizing the finances and futures of today's educated middle class. Despite this sobering reality, Nan Mooney offers concrete ideas on how we can arrest this downward spiral.

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Beacon Press
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May 1, 2009
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5.75 x 0.7 x 8.75 inches
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0807011398
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Think it can't happen to you? Read Mooney's book . . . . then think again . . . An alarming and important book, which should bring readers out of ignorance, embarrassment or bewilderment and into harsh enlightenment.-—Barbara Lloyd McMichael, Seattle Times

"An excellent analysis of the problems facing the large and important professional middle class."—Booklist

"With great empathy and infectious alarm, Nan Mooney charts the travails of America's middle class in this important book."—Anya Kamenetz, author of Generation Debt

"If you're wondering why, in our age of plenty, the financial treadmill keeps moving faster and faster for America's increasingly educated-and increasingly insecure-middle class, you owe it to yourself to read this book. It's all here: the big trends, the compelling portraits, the ideas for personal and political change, and the call to arms we so desperately need." —Jacob S. Hacker, author of The Great Risk Shift

"We hear a lot about the runaway wealth of American professionals. In this important book, Nan Mooney reminds us that most have no such luck. Working in jobs they love provides a sense of moral worth but doesn't cover the bills for teachers, legal aid lawyers, practicing artists, and others. Something has gone wrong in America, and this book gives us a grip on the crisis." —Katherine Newman, coauthor of The Missing Class and the Forbes Class of 1941 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton

About the Author

Nan Mooney is the author of I Can't Believe She Did That: Why Women Betray Other Women at Work and My Racing Heart: The Passionate World of Thoroughbreds and the Track. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Slate, The Daily News, The Daily Telegraph (UK), The Seattle Weekly, Women's eNews, and various other publications.

Her books have been featured in Elle, O, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Daily News, Salon and USA Today, among others, She has also appeared on NPR (Marketplace, Morning Edition, Only a Game), The Joan Hamburg Show, Voice of America and numerous local radio and TV shows. Having worked in the film and publishing industries, she is currently a free lance writer and can be reached through her website, www.nanmooney.com. She lives in Seattle.

Nan Mooney is the author of I Can't Believe She Did That: Why Women Betray Other Women at Work and My Racing Heart: The Passionate World of Thoroughbreds and the Track. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Slate, The Daily News, The Daily Telegraph (UK), The Seattle Weekly, Women's eNews, and various other publications. Her books have been featured in Elle, O, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Daily News, Salon and USA Today, among others, She has also appeared on NPR (Marketplace, Morning Edition, Only a Game), The Joan Hamburg Show, Voice of America and numerous local radio and TV shows. Having worked in the film and publishing industries, she is currently a free lance writer and can be reached through her website, www.nanmooney.com. She lives in Seattle.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Beacon Press; Reprint edition (May 1, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 254 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0807011398
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807011393
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 0.7 x 8.75 inches

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LoneStarJeffe

Good Book But Focuses on the Wrong Problem

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 23, 2008

I am older and clearly not the target audience for this book. I belong to the "parents" generation. But I feel it is important to provide feedback from my generation.

I respect Nan Mooney's research into clearly stating the current situation facing the next generation. This is not about dysfunctional people with poor decision making skills. It is not about lack of a work ethic. The situations she describes and the economic impact on those people are real and do not make for easy reading. Nor does she pretend there are easy answers to the problems she documents so well. Indeed, she recommends general improvements consisting of a mix of individual and social responsibility focusing on specific areas where challenges exist including health care, educational expenses, housing, and more while stating she has no absolute fixes for the problems these individuals are facing.

But I strongly believe the problems she is trying to fix are not the primary problem causing the situation. Thereis a growing world market and larger competition for the same middle class jobs. That is the reality I see as well and it is not discussed in this book. Perhaps, just perhaps, there are more people globally competing for the same jobs. If so, implementing the solutions suggested in this book only ease the pain but not address the root cause. Even if everything recommended in the book is implemented, we will continue to face increased global competition for middle class jobs. I would suggest use this book for understanding and appreciating the pain faced by so many struggling to live a middle class life today. However, I suggest looking for answers beyond what this book provides given I disagree on the real root cause. So, I recommend 3 out of 5 stars.

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ZZ TOP

Decent Book on End of the Middle Class

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 11, 2010

The middle class is gone this is one of the many books to site this. The country has moved from it's industrial and manufacturing roots. The development of the 24/7 work culture. (but with no jobs) The middle class is not longer dominated by the heterosexual white male there has been influx of career women.(Yes of coarse) Some good observations in this book such as "credit cards mask class differences" and many have become "Sallie Mae Slaves". School loans have made many people slaves so some are skipping college and becoming bakers and what not Lot of IT jobs are lost. People are not becoming parents. The plight of the over educated they have a BA in communication but that means they will work at TGIF Fridays.

Only problem with this book is the loss of the middle class is much worse then this book indicates.

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CrimsonGirl

Excellent Discussion of the Problem But Government Is Not the Solution

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 21, 2008

Nan Mooney has done an excellent job in "(Not) Keeping Up With Our Parents" of discussing the financial difficulties facing many of today's 20- and 30something college graduates. We are indeed being squeezed by the high costs of basics in many metropolitan areas in a way that our parents' generation were not.

Where I disagree with Ms. Mooney is her embrace of Big Government as the solution to the problem. She yearns for a European style welfare state with socialized medicine, government-run daycare & preschool, government-financed higher education, subsidized housing, and so on. What she fails to mention is the downside to these things- high unemployment (particularly among the young), rationing of and long waiting lists for medical treatment, a "brain drain" of the best & brightest, etc.

There's got to be a "middle way" between the current laissez-faire situation failing so many and the overly intrusive nanny state Ms. Mooney calls for in "(Not) Keeping Up With Our Parents".

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Samuel Dangremond

Not insightful

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 21, 2010

I tired to like this one, I really did... but mostly it was all:

"Me smart! Me be journalist/graphic designer/college professor. Why me no rich yet? Me know... evil Republicans!"

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Lucy B

A thoughtful look at values and money

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 11, 2008

I'm not sure what book the one-star reviewer read. In [Not] Keeping Up with Our Parents, Nan Mooney explains how life has gotten harder for middle-class professionals. While housing, health insurance, food and student loan costs have risen, incomes have not. What's more, social programs such as Social Security and corporate pension programs have dwindled. This means that people who've made reasonable decisions--to study, and to pursue responsible careers that interest them--are having a hard time making ends meet. One of her fundamental points is that the crunch isn't necessarily the individual's fault. It's not that we're frittering away our money on lattes. Rather, it's that life has gotten more expensive, and our incomes haven't kept up. It's an important book, and a timely one. Here's hoping as we reshape our country with the upcoming presidential election, that we elect leaders who want to keep the middle class dream alive.

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S. Smith

Eye-Opening & Very Informative

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 16, 2008

I was drawn to this book since I work in the collections business for a financial institution. I deal with people who are in debt every day. I read the book in three days and thought the book laid out the facts and pieced everything together very well. I didn't consider myself an expert on all the topics addressed but I don't think you need a high IQ to understand the issues discussed in the book. There were laid out plain and simple in black and white. After reading the book, I feel like I can understand a little bit better on how people can really get themselves in financial bind. Sure, some people have no one to blame but themselves but more and more, people are overextended because the cost of living is so high and they just don't make enough to make ends meet so they rely on credit. I think the author brings up some good social & political issues that our country should address. Everyone needs affordable healthcare and a sense of financial security to hopefully retire one day. Long gone are the days of pensions and in part because our gov't looks out for Corporate America more than its own citizens. I highly recommend this book and hopefully it will ignite some activism for social change in our country.

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