...This concluding chapter offers some solutions that can ensure the slow (but assured) recovery of the American economy. It argues that today's policy-making elite are severely underestimating the fallout in the economy post-Recession—many feel that the economy is indeed on its way to recovery...

...This epilogue discusses how closing America's proverbial gates to the influx of European and Asian laborers ended the decades-long era when industrialization and immigration had combined to transform the United States. Big business had come to dominate the American economy, and millions of working...

...Being laid off can be a traumatic event. The unemployed worry about how they will pay their bills and find a new job. In the American economy's boom-and-bust business cycle since the 1980s, repeated layoffs have become part of working life. This book finds that the new culture of corporate...