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Names: Temin, Peter, author.

Title: The vanishing middle class : prejudice and power in a dual economy / Peter Temin.

Description: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016035191 | ISBN 9780262036160 (hardcover : alk. paper)

eISBN 9780262339971

Subjects: LCSH: Income distribution--United States. | Middle class--United States--Economic conditions. | Minorities--United States--Economic conditions. | Equality--United States. | United States--Economic conditions--2009- | United States--Economic policy--2009-

Classification: LCC HC110.I5 T455 2017 | DDC 339.2/208900973--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016035191

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