The two-income trap
Subtitle: why middle-class mothers and father are going broke
By: Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi.
Contributors: Tyagi, Amelia Warren, 1971-
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780465090822
Subjects: Dual-career families -- United States; Family -- Economic aspects -- United States; Bankruptcy -- United States
Description: " ... provide ... evidence that the culprit is not "over-consumption" ... they point to the ferocious bidding war for housing and decent schools that has quietly engulfed America's suburbs, driving up the cost of raising children in the middle class"--Jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Just the way she planned; title: The over-consumption myth; title: Mom : the all purpose safety net; title: The myth of the immoral debtor; title: Going it alone in a two-income world; title: The cement life raft; title: The financial fire drill.