Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Peter Gosselin's HIGH WIRE in the Star-Ledger


The Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey)
June 22, 2008 Sunday
FINAL EDITION

BRIEFLY
SECTION: BUSINESS; Pg. 5

High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families
Peter Gosselin; Basic Books, $26.95

Los Angeles Times national economics correspondent Gosselin's book examines the broader lessons in our current economic crisis. The author traverses readers' material lives to show how changes in work, benefits, homeownership, college and retirement, even insurance, have shifted economic risks, once borne on the shoulders of business and government, to the backs of working families. With new data and real-life examples, Gosselin explains why Americans' mounting anxiety is warranted and how everyone is on a high wire, only one misstep away from disaster.

No comments: