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    'Squeezed' paints a dark picture of an American middle class that can't keep up

    Jun 26, 2018 3 minutes

    Alissa Quart's new book Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Affordsports a cover blurb by Barbara Ehrenreich, whose 2001 book "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" became a bestseller by reporting on the deepening financial crisis facing the American middle class. People born in the year Ehrenreich's book came out have grown up in the darkening world her book describes, and "Squeezed" can easily be seen as a follow-up, a front-lines report on that darkening world.

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