{"product_id":"book-asb3","title":"Down the Up Escalator","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of our most incisive and committed journalists-author of the classic \u003ci\u003eAll the Livelong Day\u003c\/i\u003e-shows us the real human cost of our economic follies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Great Recession has thrown huge economic chal┬¡lenges at almost all Americans save the superaffluent few, and we are only now beginning to reckon up the human toll it is taking. \u003ci\u003eDown the Up Escalator\u003c\/i\u003e is an urgent dispatch from the front lines of our vast collective struggle to keep our heads above water and maybe even-someday-get ahead. Garson has interviewed an economically and geographically wide variety of Americans to show the pain┬¡ful waste in all this loss and insecurity, and describe how individuals are coping. Her broader historical focus,  though, is on the causes and consequences of the long stag┬¡nation of wages and how it has resulted in an increasingly desperate reliance on credit and a series of ever-larger bubbles-stocks, technology, real estate. This is no way to run an economy, or a democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the members of the Pink Slip Club in New York, to a California home health-care aide on the eve of eviction, to a subprime mortgage broker who still thinks it could have worked, \u003ci\u003eDown the Up Escalator\u003c\/i\u003e presents a sobering picture of what happens to a society when it becomes economically organized to benefit only the very rich and the quick-buck speculators. But it also demonstrates the wit and resilience of ordinary Americans-and why they deserve so much bet┬¡ter than the hand they've been dealt.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49302518858032,"sku":"BDasb3","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49302518890800,"sku":"ZEasb3","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/asb3-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775747156","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-asb3","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}