Copyright © 2013 by Barbara Garson
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“The Mystery of the Missing Unemployed Man” was previously published in slightly different form on TomDispatch.com.
Jacket design by Emily Mahon Cashier totaling grocery purchases © PhotoAlto/James Hardy/Getty Images; business people exiting Wall Street Station © Fuse/Getty Images; woman on cell phone © Blend Images/SuperStock; male factory worker © Corbis/SuperStock; seamstress, Hispanic small business owner © Bipolar/Getty Images; factory worker © Blend Images/SuperStock; cleaning up a theater © Pedro Castellano/Getty Images; auto factory worker © Cultura/Limited/SuperStock; petroleum workers © Corbis/SuperStock; Hispanic businessman working on computer © JGI/Tom Grill/Getty Images
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Garson, Barbara.
Down the up escalator : how the 99 percent live in the Great Recession / Barbara Garson.
p. cm.
1. Income distribution—United States—History—21st century.
2. Equality—United States—History—21st century.
3. Global Financial Crisis, 2008–2009. I. Title.
HC110.15G376 2013
339.2’20973—dc23
2012020359
eISBN: 978-0-385-53275-4
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