Field guide to the U.S. economy: a compact and irreverent guide to economic life in America (Rev. and updated.)

Extensively revised and expanded with the most up-to-the-minute data, this new edition of theField Guide to the U.S. Economybrings key economic issues to life, reflecting the collective wit and wisdom of the many progressive economists affiliated with the Center for Popular Economics. User-friendly and accessible, the book covers a wide range of subjects, including workers, women, people of color, government spending, welfare, education, health, the environment, macroeconomics, and the global economy, as well as brand-new material on the war in Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security, the prison-industrial complex, foreign aid, the environment, and pharmaceutical companies.