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A sharp examination of the troubled state of retirement in America shares sobering insights into how the real estate crash and limited social security are preventing retirement and inducing widespread poverty in aging Baby Boomers.
"As millions of baby boomers reach their golden years, the state of retirement in America is little short of a disaster. A third of Americans have no retirement savings at all. The real estate crash wiped out much of the...
82) Under the sun
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Korean
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"A rare, jaw-dropping glimpse of everyday life in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang: Zin-Mi is an adorable 8-year-old girl, who, as she prepares to join the prestigious Children's Union, participates in colorful, joyous patriotic school pageants, eats delicious evening meals at her family's well-appointed apartment, and is doted on by her attractive parents who work in model factories that regularly exceed their production targets. Sounds too...
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English
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"When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too? Calhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At every turn, she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers...
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English
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Over the past several years, Hardwick, Vermont, a typical hardscrabble farming community of three thousand residents, has jump-started its economy and redefined its self-image through a local, self-sustaining food system unlike anything else in America. Even as the recent financial downturn threatens to cripple small businesses and privately owned farms, a stunning number of food-based businesses have grown in the region—Vermont Soy, Jasper Hill...
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PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2009
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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On October 29, 1929 - Black Monday, large and small investors alike lost corporate and personal fortunes when the stock market crashed. This program examines the reasons behind the crash and whether the crash was predictable.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
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xxxiv, 492 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Two decades into the twenty-first century, the stagnation of living standards has become the defining trend of American life. Life expectancy has declined, economic inequality has soared, and, after some progress, the Black-white wage gap is once again as large as it was in the 1950s. How did this happen in the world's most powerful country? And what happened to the "American dream"--the promise of a happier, healthier, more prosperous future--which...
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A new edition of the seminal text by the father of modern economics.
First published in 1919, John Maynard Keynes's The Economic Consequences of the Peace created immediate controversy. Keynes was a firsthand witness to the negotiations of the Paris Peace Conference, as an official representative of the British Treasury, and he simultaneously sat as deputy for the chancellor of the Exchequer on the Supreme Economic Council. In these roles, he was...
88) Disruption
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 85 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
Description
Disruption explores a groundbreaking initiative that seeks to eradicate poverty by empowering women on government assistance programs in Colombia, Peru and Brazil to "save their way out of poverty." The film interweaves women's testimonies to the transformative power of financial education with the story of Fundación Capital, a group of dynamic activist-economists that believes when you invest in women you change society. As women share how economic...
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which building would burn down next, regarding each other at first with compassion, and later suspicion. Vigilante groups sprang up, patrolling the rural Virginia coast with cameras and camouflage. Volunteer firefighters slept at their stations. The arsonist seemed to target abandoned buildings, but local police...
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xiv, 432 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"As the great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography, written in exile, 'I have a pretty thorough knowledge of history, but never, to my recollection, has it produced such madness in such gigantic proportions.' He was referring to the situation in Germany in 1923. It was a 'year of lunacy,' defined by hyperinflation, a political system on the verge of collapse, and separatist movements that threatened Germany's territorial integrity....
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Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
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337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America's middle class, and by the time the people of Massachusetts elected her in 2012, she had become one of the country's leading progressive voices. Now, at a perilous moment for our nation, she has written a book that is at once an illuminating account of how we built the strongest middle class in history, a scathing indictment of those who have spent the past thirty-five years...
93) México bárbaro
Author
Publisher
Berbera Editores
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
1a ed.
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 49 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Español
Description
After the revolution of 1959 and the U.S. embargo that followed, the people of Cuba were left to fend for themselves. Deprived of even the most basic goods, they scavenge the alleys and scrap heaps, giving new vitality to the discarded.
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Español
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An experience of five years with Mr. Mill's treatise in the class-room not only convinced me of the great usefulness of what still remains one of the most lucid and systematic books yet published which cover the whole range of the study, but I have also been convinced of the need of such additions as should give the results of later thinking, without militating against the general tenor of Mr. Mill's system, of such illustrations as should fit it...
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English
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The views generally held about the rise of the factory system in Britain derive from highly distorted accounts of the social consequences of that system so say the distinguished economic historians whose papers make up this book. The authors offer documentary evidence to support their conclusion that under capitalism the workers, despite long hours and other hardships of factory life, were better off financially, had more opportunities, and led a...
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Español
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Aunque hace algún tiempo que se encuentra agotada la primera edición de este ensayo, parece que aún se le solicita. Me he valido, por tanto, de la resolución del editor de reimprimirlo para hacer algunos cambios y mejoras que aconseja la experiencia habida desde su primera versión.
Al corregir la obra no me ha sido preciso modificar en forma importante su tesis general. Las críticas han tendido a centrarse sobre mi afirmación en el capítulo...
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English
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The Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2020, the 51st edition of this series, includes the latest available economic, financial, social, and environmental indicators for the 49 regional members of the Asian Development Bank. It presents the latest key statistics on development issues concerning the economies of Asia and the Pacific to a wide audience, including policy makers, development practitioners, government officials, researchers, students,...
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Español
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El sexto libro de Lucio A. Muñoz, La cuarta revolución industrial en España. ¿Cómo reducir el paro estructural que está provocando este fenómeno?, está dividido en dos partes totalmente diferenciadas.
En la primera parte, que consta de veintitrés capítulos, Lucio A. Muñoz analiza los efectos que la cuarta revolución industrial está provocando en las empresas. Del mismo modo, el autor expone, en esta primera parte, las claves para reducir...
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Español
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Los innovadores que desarrollan nuevos proyectos son capaces de prever, diseñar, planificar, gestionar y ejecutar con un sello característico. En ocasiones, esa visión especial y esa predisposición diferente para ejecutar sus ideas innovadoras puede confundirse o asociarse con ciertas rarezas o con una imposibilidad para trabajar en compañías y empleos tradicionales.
En este libro te presentamos 20 recetas para iniciar tu actividad emprendedora....
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