Prosperity: The Coming Twenty-Year Boom and What It Means to You

AuthorBob Davis & David Wessel
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We are offering a high discount on this book due to its slightly damaged conditionMany Americans are enjoying the fruits of prosperity.  Unemployment and inflation are low and it seems that everyone is driving a sport utility vehicle.But is this a prosperity that's reserved for the upper middle class, the folks driving the Jeep Cherokees?  Or is something more fundamental happening?  The answers are crucial for anyone interested in how America is changing--from corporate executives to policy makers to the average person keeping up with current issues.Bob Davis and David Wessel have spent thousands of hours in living rooms and workplaces around the country, and they show conclusively that the recent good economic news not only is here to stay but is the start of twenty years of broad-based prosperity.Prosperity tells stories about how the lives of  the middle class are changing for the better.  These are the people who are still being wrongly consigned  b y prophets of doom and gloom to the sidelines of the new high-tech economy.  People like:Randy Kohrs, whose training in respiratory therapy at a local community college has lifted him from dead-end, minimum-wage jobs into the ranks of the middle classTeresa Wooten, a former worker in a low-wage South Carolina clothing factory, who is now a supervisor in a German-owned factoryThe workers at the Allen-Bradley plant in Milwaukee, who are benefiting in wages and transferable job skills form the company's recent computer automationThese and many other remarkable stories bring together the three trends that will be the basis for a new, middle-class prosperity:

Publisher Times Books
Publication Date 20/02/1998
Number of Pages 324
Binding Hard Back
ISBN RP9780812928198
Category Non Fiction , Business and Management , Management Skills , Banking , Human Resource , Media Studies , Management and Leadership , Business Writing & Communication , Business & Economics

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