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A Country That Works
Andy Stern
Getting America Back on Track
Free Press
October 2006
On Sale: October 4, 2006
224 pages
ISBN: 0743297679
EAN: 9780743297677
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Political
Andy Stern, one of the most visionary leaders in America
today, has fought relentlessly to ensure that Americans'
hard work is rewarded in today's hypercompetitive,
globalized world. As the newsmaking president of the
fastest-growing, most dynamic union in America, he has led
the charge for modernizing the "house of labor" -- taking
unions out of the past and into the twenty-first century. He
has spearheaded the campaign against the "Wal-Marting" of
jobs and has innovated transformative solutions to the
daunting problems facing Americans, from job insecurity to
runaway health care costs. In this powerful critique and
call-to-arms, he offers a revelatory dissection of the
gathering threats to our standard of living -- threats that
our politicians have failed utterly to address -- and he
puts forth a bold, unassailable plan for making vital reforms. In his eye-opening diagnosis that makes the urgency of the
threats vividly clear, Stern shows that Americans are
contending with the most disruptive economic upheaval in the
world economy since the Industrial Revolution. Yet, in the
face of this daunting challenge, the American system simply
isn't working well enough for most of us. Stern powerfully
portrays how with the pace of globalization relentlessly
quickening, the competitive pressures on our jobs and
quality of life are heating up even more, especially as
housing, health care, and oil prices skyrocket. While CEO
salaries soar and business and the wealthy are handed
plentiful tax shelters, the incomes of both white-collar and
blue-collar workers stagnate, leaving most Americans
struggling to pay off ever-escalating debt, instead of
saving for retirement. The plain fact is that our system is
out of whack, serving the interests of the top sliver of the
most wealthy while putting the squeeze on the rest of us. Meanwhile, our politicians irresponsibly sidestep the
crucial solutions that we so desperately need in order to
make sure Americans can move into the twenty-first century
with their futures secure. As Stern so persuasively shows,
it is time for bold thinking and creative solutions to
overhaul a health care system in crisis; correct a tax
system rigged in favor of business and the wealthy; revamp
our inadequate retirement system; and make truly innovative
improvements in education. He presents a set of
course-correction reforms so compelling, simple, and
achievable that readers will find themselves enraged that
they haven't yet been enacted. Americans have a right to
expect our government to work for us. Andy Stern shows how
we can get things back on track to make sure it does.
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