Boom, bust, boom...? The rapidity of change in America from the exuberant 1960s to the stagflation of the 1970s to the recovery of 1983-84 has been so startling as to confuse the American investor, planner, marketer, developer—and plain citizen.

Are the incomes of Americans declining?

Is the middle class—and most importantly, the mass middle market-disappearing?

Has the United States' standard of living fallen behind other advanced industrial nations?

Are we really becoming a nation of low-wage, fast-food attendants?

Are America's minorities falling off the income train?

What price poverty?

Assertion and counter-assertion, claim and counter-claim, arrive faster than understanding. Whether investor or spender, pro-Administration or anti-, a better grasp of the answers is required—Where is America going in the 1980s?

In these heavily documented works, the authors present an enormously comprehensive, up-to-date gathering-in of the data. In clear, concise layman's language, they provide an essential foundation for decision makers regardless of their sympathies.