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Average Is Over

Author : Tyler Cowen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698138163
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Average Is Over written by Tyler Cowen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned economist and author of Big Business Tyler Cowen brings a groundbreaking analysis of capitalism, the job market, and the growing gap between the one percent and minimum wage workers in this follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Great Stagnation. The United States continues to mint more millionaires and billionaires than any country ever. Yet, since the great recession, three quarters of the jobs created here pay only marginally more than minimum wage. Why is there growth only at the top and the bottom? Economist and bestselling author Tyler Cowen explains that high earners are taking ever more advantage of machine intelligence and achieving ever-better results. Meanwhile, nearly every business sector relies less and less on manual labor, and that means a steady, secure life somewhere in the middle—average—is over. In Average is Over, Cowen lays out how the new economy works and identifies what workers and entrepreneurs young and old must do to thrive in this radically new economic landscape.

The Averaged American

Author : Sarah E. Igo
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674038940
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Averaged American written by Sarah E. Igo and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: supports the death penalty, that half of all marriages end in divorce, and that four out of five prefer a particular brand of toothpaste. But remarkably, such data--now woven into our social fabric--became common currency only in the last century. With a bold and sophisticated analysis, Sarah Igo demonstrates the power of scientific surveys to shape Americans' sense of themselves as individuals, members of communities, and citizens of a nation.

Forgotten Americans

Author : Isabel Sawhill
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300241062
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Americans written by Isabel Sawhill and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sobering account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation’s economic inequalities One of the country’s leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society—economic, cultural, and political—and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of jobs to trade and technology has left a significant portion of the American workforce disenfranchised and skeptical of governments and corporations alike. And yet both have a role to play in improving the country for all. Sawhill argues for a policy agenda based on mainstream values, such as family, education, and work. While many have lost faith in government programs designed to help them, there are still trusted institutions on both the local and federal level that can deliver better job opportunities and higher wages to those who have been left behind. At the same time, the private sector needs to reexamine how it trains and rewards employees. This book provides a clear-headed and middle-way path to a better-functioning society in which personal responsibility is honored and inclusive capitalism and more broadly shared growth are once more the norm.

Average Americans

Author : Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Average Americans written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

U.S. Health in International Perspective

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309264146
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book U.S. Health in International Perspective written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United States have improved dramatically over the past century, Americans live shorter lives and experience more injuries and illnesses than people in other high-income countries. The U.S. health disadvantage cannot be attributed solely to the adverse health status of racial or ethnic minorities or poor people: even highly advantaged Americans are in worse health than their counterparts in other, "peer" countries. In light of the new and growing evidence about the U.S. health disadvantage, the National Institutes of Health asked the National Research Council (NRC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a panel of experts to study the issue. The Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries examined whether the U.S. health disadvantage exists across the life span, considered potential explanations, and assessed the larger implications of the findings. U.S. Health in International Perspective presents detailed evidence on the issue, explores the possible explanations for the shorter and less healthy lives of Americans than those of people in comparable countries, and recommends actions by both government and nongovernment agencies and organizations to address the U.S. health disadvantage.

Average Americans

Author : Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Average Americans written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Average Americans

Author : Roosevelt Theodore
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781318001644
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Average Americans written by Roosevelt Theodore and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

The League

Author : Bill Mills
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 9781620875087
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The League written by Bill Mills and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two weeks before the U.S. entered World War I, a Chicago advertising executive visited the Department of Justice with a proposal - organize the country’s businessmen into a secret force of volunteer agents to ferret out and investigate enemy activities within the United States. The country, overcome by a wave of patriotic fervor, had also become gripped with fear and uncertainty of the influx of immigrants from the very countries with which the country was now at war. The idea received quick approval and caught on like wildfire. Soon thousands of volunteers in every major industry, trade and profession were on the alert nationwide, maintaining surveillance and investigating cases for the Department of Justice Bureau of Investigation. They would grow to become 250,000 strong. Written as a real-life adventure story, The League reveals how the organization began, the manner in which it operated, and the varied missions that it performed on behalf of the U.S. government. It is an extraordinary chapter in American history, when almost any citizen could receive official credentials as a volunteer investigator. From a running gun battle on the streets of Philadelphia, to the seizure of a disguised German commerce raider on the high seas, to the hunt for the radical bomber that attacked the Federal Building in Chicago, The League is a fascinating true story that will not soon be forgotten.

Fat, Dumb, and Ugly

Author : Peter Strupp
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451603908
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Fat, Dumb, and Ugly written by Peter Strupp and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's lone superpower...supreme guardian of democracy...and home of the blithely uninformed and epidemically obese. Welcome to America -- pull up a chair, click on the tube, and grab a donut. Concerned Citizen Peter Strupp is shocked and bothered by what he sees. It seems we're not as thin, smart, and good-looking as we like to think. Packed with real facts and statistics, Fat, Dumb, and Ugly takes readers on an eye-opening, laugh-out-loud, and at times horrifying tour of the numbers that shape our country: • Percentage of adults in the United States who are overweight: 64.5 • Percentage of Americans who believe they have actually spoken with Satan: 5 • Percentage of voters for whom Saturday Night Live and MTV are primary sources of information about presidential candidates: 16 • Average number of pink lawn flamingos sold annually in America: 250,000 A wickedly hilarious and addictive cultural snapshot of our nation of conspicuous consumers, fast-food fanatics, and dumbed-down dolts, Fat, Dumb, and Ugly casts a revealing spotlight on John Q. Public, the average American -- and it's not always pretty.

Average Americans (Classic Reprint)

Author : Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365379232
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book Average Americans (Classic Reprint) written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Average Americans The regular officers are fine fellows, but for any serious work we should eliminate two thirds of the older men and a quarter of the younger men, and use the remainder as a nucleus for, say, three times their number of civilian officers. Except with a comparatively small number, too long a stay in our army with its peculiar limitations - produces a rigid ity of mind that refuses to face the actual conditions of modern warfare. But the won der is that our army and navy have been able to survive in any shape after five years of Baker and Daniels. - September 17. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Great Stagnation

Author : Tyler Cowen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101502258
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Great Stagnation written by Tyler Cowen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tyler Cowen’s controversial New York Times bestseller—the book heard round the world that ignited a firestorm of debate and redefined the nature of America’s economic malaise. America has been through the biggest financial crisis since the great Depression, unemployment numbers are frightening, media wages have been flat since the 1970s, and it is common to expect that things will get worse before they get better. Certainly, the multidecade stagnation is not yet over. How will we get out of this mess? One political party tries to increase government spending even when we have no good plan for paying for ballooning programs like Medicare and Social Security. The other party seems to think tax cuts will raise revenue and has a record of creating bigger fiscal disasters that the first. Where does this madness come from? As Cowen argues, our economy has enjoyed low-hanging fruit since the seventeenth century: free land, immigrant labor, and powerful new technologies. But during the last forty years, the low-hanging fruit started disappearing, and we started pretending it was still there. We have failed to recognize that we are at a technological plateau. The fruit trees are barer than we want to believe. That's it. That is what has gone wrong and that is why our politics is crazy. In The Great Stagnation, Cowen reveals the underlying causes of our past prosperity and how we will generate it again. This is a passionate call for a new respect of scientific innovations that benefit not only the powerful elites, but humanity as a whole.

The Average American

Author : Kevin O'Keefe
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 9781586482701
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book The Average American written by Kevin O'Keefe and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2005-10-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Send an e-card for The Average American ! Click here. John Q Public. Plain Jane. The Average Joe. We think we know the type, but have we ever actually met the person? To be the perfectly average American is harder than it might seem: You must live within three miles of a McDonald's, and two miles of a public park; you must be better off financially than your parents, but earn no more than 75,000 a year; you must believe in God and the literal truth of the Bible, yet hold some views that traditional churches have deemed sacrilegious. Equipped with his trusty Mr. Q, a notebook that he has compiled with over 1,000 facts about the Average American, Kevin O'Keefe has completed a tour of America in search of the sublimely ordinary, the man or woman who represents most definitively all that is average in our country. In his travels from New York to Nevada, Pennsylvania to Hawaii, Kansas to Connecticut and beyond, O'Keefe talks business and pleasure with the proprietors of Average Joe and Jane Athletics, visits the polls on election day with the first candidate for the Average American party, bypasses both Peoria and Normal, Illinois (for, as he explains, they are not that normal), watches the magician Myklar the Ordinary wow the kids at a church in rural Maryland, and delivers a fascinating, often surprising, look into the history and culture of the common man and woman. At the end of the road he discovers that the Average American is, up close, rather extraordinary.

Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309218233
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past decade, tremendous growth has occurred in the use of nutrition symbols and rating systems designed to summarize key nutritional aspects and characteristics of food products. These symbols and the systems that underlie them have become known as front-of-package (FOP) nutrition rating systems and symbols, even though the symbols themselves can be found anywhere on the front of a food package or on a retail shelf tag. Though not regulated and inconsistent in format, content, and criteria, FOP systems and symbols have the potential to provide useful guidance to consumers as well as maximize effectiveness. As a result, Congress directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to undertake a study with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to examine and provide recommendations regarding FOP nutrition rating systems and symbols. The study was completed in two phases. Phase I focused primarily on the nutrition criteria underlying FOP systems. Phase II builds on the results of Phase I while focusing on aspects related to consumer understanding and behavior related to the development of a standardized FOP system. Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols focuses on Phase II of the study. The report addresses the potential benefits of a single, standardized front-label food guidance system regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, assesses which icons are most effective with consumer audiences, and considers the systems/icons that best promote health and how to maximize their use.

The Averaged American

Author : Sarah E. Igo
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674023215
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book The Averaged American written by Sarah E. Igo and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans today “know” that a majority of the population supports the death penalty, that half of all marriages end in divorce, and that four out of five prefer a particular brand of toothpaste. Through statistics like these, we feel that we understand our fellow citizens. But remarkably, such data—now woven into our social fabric—became common currency only in the last century. Sarah Igo tells the story, for the first time, of how opinion polls, man-in-the-street interviews, sex surveys, community studies, and consumer research transformed the United States public. Igo argues that modern surveys, from the Middletown studies to the Gallup Poll and the Kinsey Reports, projected new visions of the nation: authoritative accounts of majorities and minorities, the mainstream and the marginal. They also infiltrated the lives of those who opened their doors to pollsters, or measured their habits and beliefs against statistics culled from strangers. Survey data underwrote categories as abstract as “the average American” and as intimate as the sexual self. With a bold and sophisticated analysis, Igo demonstrates the power of scientific surveys to shape Americans’ sense of themselves as individuals, members of communities, and citizens of a nation. Tracing how ordinary people argued about and adapted to a public awash in aggregate data, she reveals how survey techniques and findings became the vocabulary of mass society—and essential to understanding who we, as modern Americans, think we are.

In an Average Lifetime--

Author : Tom Heymann
Publisher : tom heymann
ISBN 13 : 9780449905449
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book In an Average Lifetime-- written by Tom Heymann and published by tom heymann. This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surprising stats of America's favorite fact finder and trivia master have been spotlighted by People, USA Today, Arsenio Hall, and many others. In his new book, Heymann squeezes the typical American's 74.9 years of living into another typically hilarious eye-opening survey.

Average Americans

Author : Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Average Americans written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2017-03-12 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Average Americans by Theodore Roosevelt: In "Average Americans," Theodore Roosevelt presents a collection of essays and speeches that provide insight into the ideals and aspirations of ordinary American citizens. Roosevelt's writing celebrates the hardworking and determined spirit of the American people, making this book a tribute to the nation's character and potential. Key Aspects of the Book "Average Americans": American Character: Roosevelt's essays highlight the admirable qualities and values of everyday Americans. National Identity: "Average Americans" contributes to the understanding of what it means to be an American and the unique identity of the nation. Inspiration and Motivation: The book inspires readers with stories of perseverance and resilience, encouraging them to strive for greatness. Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) was the 26th President of the United States and a renowned author, naturalist, and statesman. "Average Americans" reflects Roosevelt's passion for his country and his commitment to uplifting the American spirit.

Average Americans

Author : Theod Roosevelt (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Average Americans written by Theod Roosevelt (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: