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"[The author] takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup...
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"With How to Make Your Money Last, you will learn how to turn your retirement savings into a steady paycheck that will last for life. Today, people worry that they're going to run out of money in their older age. That won't happen if you use a few tricks for squeezing higher payments from your assets--from your Social Security account (find the hidden values there), pension (monthly income or lump sum?), home equity (sell and invest the proceeds or...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
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"Learn the secrets to maximizing your Social Security benefits and earn up to thousands of dollars more each year with expert advice that you can't get anywhere else. Want to know how to navigate the forbidding maze of Social Security and emerge with the highest possible benefits? You could try reading all 2,728 rules of the Social Security system (and the thousands of explanations of these rules), but Kotlikoff, Moeller, and Solman explain Social...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
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"Sowell...argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America. Pundits and politically motivated economists trumpet ambiguous statistics and sensational theories while ignoring the true determinant of income inequality: the production of wealth. We cannot properly understand inequality if we focus exclusively on the distribution of wealth and ignore wealth production factors such as geography,...
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Rachel Richards
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Rachel Richards has one goal in mind: teaching you everything you need to know to become financially free earlier than you ever thought possible. At age 27, Rachel quit her job and retired, living off $10,000+ per month in passive income streams. Let her show you how to do it at any age -- it's never too late. Passive income is earned with little to no ongoing work. It's no get-rich-quick scheme, but once your passive income exceeds your expenses,...
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Springboard Press
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c2008
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Do you have at least $1 million in liquid assets to support yourself during the 20+ years most of us can expect to live after we've stopped drawing a regular paycheck? And if not ... how can you get started today to meet that goal? This book outlines the steps readers need to take in order to meet this ambitious (but achievable) goal ... no matter whether they're 35, 45, or even 55. If you're in your 50s and still a long way from this target, you've...
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2015
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" A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't think it exists. Jessica Compton's family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter Brianna in Chicago often have no food but spoiled milk on weekends. After two decades of brilliant research on American poverty, Kathryn Edin noticed something she hadn't...
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Wiley
Pub. Date
2012
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"Essential advice on the retirement challenges facing single womenTwenty-five million strong and growing: that's the number of single women 45+ in the United States. The Single Woman's Guide to Retirement is an essential and targeted resource for planning the next steps in your life. Packed with an inclusive blueprint that covers every aspect of retirement along with quizzes, checklists, and sidebars to help readers assess their choices, The Single...
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Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Ready To Pull The Retirement Trigger? Many want to retire early...slow down a bit...enjoy their life, their spouse and grandkids. But what if there is a major health issue? Or what if they run out of money? There are many issues facing people as they consider retirement. Where can they turn for answers they can trust? There are no do-overs in retirement. People need a path. They need a strategy. They need a guide. Ready To Pull the Retirement Trigger...
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Regnery Capital
Pub. Date
[2020]
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What's the biggest retirement mistake you can make? Not taking full advantage of your Social Security benefits. And it's a mistake that almost every retiree makes. Luckily, America's #1 retirement expert, Bob Carlson, editor of the popular Retirement Watch newsletter and website, is here to help with an easy-to-follow guide to getting the most out of your Social Security benefits.
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Lulu Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2013
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"Letter to the One Percent is exactly what it sounds like: a letter to the richest one percent of American households. It is a call to action, a plea for compassion, and a manifesto for the future. It tells the story of their extraordinary success - and how the other 99 percent of Americans missed out. It explains how this divergence caused household income to stagnate, forced millions of Americans into poverty, and triggered the worst financial crisis...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
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"...Nelson D. Schwartz explores a new aspect of economic inequality that is profoundly reshaping public and private life. In recent years businesses and venture capitalists have stepped in to exploit the gap between the rich and everyone else, worsening services for the masses while finding new ways to serve the privileged... And with corporate leaders and other decision makers living on the friction-free side of the velvet rope, they are less inclined...
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Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
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"We are only just beginning to reckon with our post-pandemic future. As political extremism intensifies, the great resignation affects businesses everywhere, and supply chain issues crush bottom lines, we're faced with daunting questions--is our democracy under threat? How will Big Tech change our lives? What does job security look like for me? America is on the brink of massive change--change that will disrupt the workings of our economy and drastically...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
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"A Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling financial journalist and a policy analyst expose the greed and pillaging of a small group of celebrated Wall Street financiers who use excessive debt and dubious practices to undermine our nation's economy while enriching themselves: private equity"--
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"The 16th Amendment to the Constitution legalized federal income tax, but what if there were problems with the 1913 ratification of that amendment? Problems that call into question decades of tax collecting, and could even bring down the US economy. There is a surprising truth to this possibility a truth wholly entertained by Steve Berry, a top-ten New York Times bestselling writer, in his new thriller, The Patriot Threat. His protagonist, Cotton...
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