Adrift: 100 Charts that Reveal Why America is on the Brink of Change

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Because our actions and government policies got us into this fix, that means we as a society can also alter our situation for the better. First you have to acknowledge that the middle class is an accident, and it's not self-sustaining," Galloway said. For you, those wise choices may include focusing on community connections, ensuring you and your children have the education they need, embracing risk and new opportunity, and learning to be smart about the tech companies trying to influence you.

It would be easy, but erroneous, to assume the book is a gloom laden dystopian rant about a nation in trouble.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Inequality is inherent to the market, but when wealth is entrenched and mobility suppressed, that’s cronyism, not capitalism. The Girl Scouts have fared a bit better, but even its membership has fallen from 13 per 1,000 people to only seven, a reduction of almost half. K. found that residential segregation led to decreased tolerance of minority residents, while residential integration led to improved relationships between groups. I benefited from being born in a time and place of unprecedented prosperity with a host of advantages, most of them circumstantial.

S. has enjoyed the benefits of economic and military hegemony for decades, but that supremacy is in decline. But I respectfully think those reviewers miss the point, in that the brilliance of this book - and it is brilliant - lies in Galloway's combining all these individual points (each of which has been the subject of numerous individual books) in one organized - if endlessly depressing - resource, and then communicating them in a simple, easily-grasped (and generally eye-opening, if not outright shocking) graphic format. It is more like a “leading economists devote 30 years of their lives to studying this issue and the data are still inconclusive” kind of issue. While I myself am so far Left I could almost fall off, I appreciate a non-biased view when looking at something like this. Policies like the GI Bill that made it easier for young veterans from all economic backgrounds to have access to affordable education, housing, and small-business loans would go a long way to rebuilding widespread American prosperity today.Overall, Galloway's book was not very remarkable to me, but I did enjoy the author's narration of the audiobook!