"A deep and troubling examination of the dark corners of working-class America, where unemployment and the loss of traditional jobs have produced an epidemic of drug abuse, bigotry, and even suicide, coupled with an urgent plea to rearrange our priorities to address the ills of middle America and emphasize the common good"-- "Is America in a state of irrevocable decline? In this provocative and disturbing examination of our country, Pulitzer Prize-winning...

Sam and Holly Foster and their young son James seem to have a perfect life until Sam loses his job and James has a life-threatening accident. Hopelessness and constant caring for James takes their toll on Sam and Holly and they begin to drift apart. It takes the miracle of the rediscovery of James's toy boat and the appearance of a mysterious man to remind them of what is important in life, and that love and heaven are not far away.

What happens in one community when a group of educated women chooses not to work? Four friends are forced to confront the choices they've made in opting out of their careers--until a series of startling events shatters the peace and, for some of them, changes the landscape entirely.

"Miranda did not put adventure on her Christmas list, but thanks to her eighty-five-year-old neighbor Joy, that's exactly what she's getting this year. When Joy tells Miranda that she plans to drive an old RV decked out in Christmas decorations from their Chicago neighborhood to her new retirement digs in Phoenix--in the dead of winter, no less--the much younger Miranda insists that Joy cannot make such a trip by herself. Besides, a crazy trip with...

An exploration of supply side economics and the trickle down myth as exemplified by Pittsburgh's declining steel industry. The Business of America... is the first film to probe one of our most treasured economic assumptions: that private corporations can be trusted to make the investments upon which all Americans depend. The film contrasts two Pittsburgh steelworkers conventional faith in private enterprise with the actual strategies and priorities...

"Losing a job is one of the most devastating events one can experience. For trauma, it ranks up there with divorce, loss of a loved one, or permanent personal injury, and it happens more often that one would think. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, approximately 50,000 workers are fired or laid off each day. That is over 18,000,000 workers each year. Moving Forward in Mid-Career is a guide for workers who have been fired or laid off and...

"Most research on poverty focuses on the damage that persistent unemployment causes for individuals, families, and neighborhoods. But what happens when jobs are plentiful and workers are hard to come by? Persistent labor shortages became the norm in 2022, but there have been a number of periods in American history where tight labor markets prevailed. Moving the Needle examines what happens when conditions favorable to workers create market pressures...

"Winner of the 1996 Hewett Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies" Susan L. Woodward is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at The Brookings Institution. In the first political analysis of unemployment in a socialist country, Susan Woodward argues that the bloody conflicts that are destroying Yugoslavia stem not so much from ancient ethnic hatreds as from the political and social divisions created by...

A leading political economist advances a new theory to explain the postwar shifts in the relative economic fortunes and positions of various nations and regions.