Product Description: Surrounded by wasted lives and wasted potential, Sandy Mathews had a plan to make some quick money to help her brother through college. She had the whole thing planned. No one would get hurt. Everything was fine until a San Francisco crime family and a hitman become involved and she becomes the target of a statewide manhunt for those responsible for the "Lafayette Massacre...read more

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Examines the distribution of income and wealth in the U.S.

Product Description: The State of Working America, 1996-97 presents a statistical portrait of the standard of living of America's working families based on the most recent data available. By thoroughly analyzing areas such as family income, taxes, wages, jobs, wealth, and poverty, Mishel, Bernstein, and Schmitt show how the current economy is reflected in the lives of American workers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Economists and policy makers have advocated restructuring European labor markets after the deregulatory, "high employment" U.S. model. Beware the U.S. Model suggests a news approach: macroeconomic policies that emphasize job growth, high-performance work organization, and international regulation of financial and labor markets...read more