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An emerging spokesperson for a new generation passionately and persuasively addresses the grim state of young people today-and tells us how we can, and must, save our future.
Riverhead
February 2006
288 pages ISBN: 1594489076 Hardcover
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Self-Help | Non-Fiction
The nature of youth is to question. So when
twenty-four-year-old Anya Kamenetz started out as a
journalist, she began asking hard questions about her
generation for which no one seemed to have good answers. Why
were college students nationwide graduating with an average
of more than $20,000 in student loans? Why were her friends
thousands of dollars in credit-card debt? Why did so many
jobs for people under thirty-five involve a plastic name
badge, last only for the short-term, and not include
benefits? With record deficits and threats to Social
Security, what kind of future was shaping up for the
nation's kids?
Kamenetz became one of the youngest
ever columnists for The Village Voice, where she
earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination for her reporting on the
new economics of being young. In Generation Debt, she
talks to experts in economics, labor markets, the
health-care industry, and education, and amasses a startling
array of evidence that building a secure life, let alone
surviving, is harder for young people today than it was
thirty years ago.
Like Barbara Ehrenreich's
Nickel and Dimed, Generation Debt is a
compelling day-to-day look at the life experiences behind a
massive economic shift. Like Naomi Klein's No Logo,
it is a deeply researched, rousing manifesto that will get
you thinking in new ways about American values-and about
America's future.
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