Author : John Hively
Publisher : Black Rose Books Limited
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 27,70 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781551642802
Demonstrates what popular opinion entertains, that 'the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.'
Author : Susan F. Paterno
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 44,4 MB
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 1250622654
Director of the Chapman journalism program—and mother of four recent college grads—Susan F. Paterno leads you through the admissions process to help you and your family make the best decision possible. How is it possible that Harvard is more affordable for most American families than their local state university? Or that up to half of eligible students receive no financial aid? Or that public universities are rejecting homegrown middle- and working-class applicants and instead enrolling wealthy out-of- state students? College admission has escalated into a high-stakes game of emotional and financial survival. How is the deck stacked against you? And what can you do about it? Susan F. Paterno, a veteran academic and journalist, answers these questions and more in Game On. Paterno helped her four very different kids navigate the application process to a wide range of colleges, paying for their four-year educations on a finite budget. She incisively decodes the college admission industry—the consultants, the tutors, the rankers, the branding companies hawking “advantage”—and arms you with the knowledge you need to make the system work for you. You’ll learn how to narrow your focus, analyze who gets in and why, and look for the right financial fit before considering anything else, including geography, reputation, and, especially, ranking. Among the tools and insights in Game On: · Why forty years of failed free-market policies have led to skyrocketing tuition and historic levels of student debt · Why applying to college has become a bewildering maze and how to find your way to a successful result · Why college costs are more terrifying than you think · How to read beyond the rack rate to negotiate the best financial package with the least debt · Why merit is a myth, but merit aid is essential · The difference between family debt and student debt and how to split it A playbook for the Hunger Games of higher education, Game On explains the anxiety, uncertainty, and chaos in college admission, explodes the myth of meritocracy, exposes the academy’s connection to America’s widening gap between rich and poor, and provides strategies to beat—and reform—a broken system.
Author : Michael Schwalbe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 2014-12-31
Category : Equality
ISBN : 9780190216405
In Rigging the Game Michael Schwalbe offers a clear and compelling introduction to how the rules that shape economic life and everyday interaction generate and perpetuate inequality in American society. Guided by the questions How did the situation get this way? and How does it stay this way?, Schwalbe tracks inequality from its roots to its regulation. With its lively combination of analysis and stories, Rigging the Game is an innovative tool for teaching about the inequalities of race, class, and gender. In the final chapter, "Escaping the Inequality Trap," Schwalbe helps students understand how inequality can be challenged and overcome.
Author : Lee Munson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1118171144
Today's financial landscape and what Wall Street doesn't want you to know Rigged Money is based on one simple truth: Wall Street needs money from Main Street, not the other way around. The financial industry has convinced the general public that investing across different asset classes is the only way to protect wealth, but this is an outdated rule that no longer applies. Since asset classes—small caps, large caps, international investments, gold, and bonds—now overlap when it comes to risk and volatility parameters, the diversification effect is gone. That's exactly what Wall Street doesn't want you to know—that the rules of the game have changed. Risk Isn't Constant: Pie charts lie when it comes to accurately describing the risk of stocks and bonds Dividends Are No Silver Bullet: They are designed to entice investors rather than to increase a company's value or your net worth Buy and Hold is Dead: The financial world (and all the companies and securities in it) moves too quickly and is changing too often for this theory to hold true today Gold Is Not an Investment: Gold is today's currency of fear, and this fear is driven by escalating government debt An unflinching look at this new financial world, Lee Munson's Rigged Money arms today's investors with the simple, smart, and clear advice needed to level the playing field.
Author : Nicki Herman
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 33,58 MB
Release : 2017-12-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781973544869
I have a strong desire to help each person live everyday with passion, purpose, and freedom as they find enlightenment, empowerment, and nourishment for their body and soul. There is power in the truth If you are interested in that elusive thing called the truth, if you are interested in personal development through the truth, then this is the right place for you. This is a place where humans can access the concepts, and the information necessary to have a true version of reality presented to them. A journey that if taken will lead each individual toward true freedom. Through knowledge, we are empowered. The path to personal freedom No more wandering through life wondering why we feel so helpless about our circumstance, why we never seem to get ahead, or worse yet why it seems we are just living to pay bills before we die. Here you will find empowerment through knowledge and a fundamental understanding of how the world actually works so that together we can come up with a plan on how to reset 'the game'. People feel like the system is rigged against them, that stems from you subconsciously knowing. Perhaps you haven't put all of the pieces together. Well, I am here to help connect the dots! The deck is stacked, everything is rigged, and not only do none of our lives matter to them, but they are out to get us! It's nothing to be fearful of though because with the power of knowledge and some careful maneuvering we can reset the game for ourselves. The following industries and systems are rigged to cheat you, to swindle you, to suppress you, to control, exploit and manipulate you, and ultimately to discard you once you are of no further value to them.
Author : Brian Tuohy
Publisher : Feral House
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1932595813
Factual accounts expose how professional sports manipulate the outcomes of games for TV ratings and profits.
Author : Kimberly Jones
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1250805139
Shortlisted for the SABEW Best in Business Book Awards Winner of the 2022 AAMBC Literary Award for Non-Fiction/Self Help Book of the Year A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video, “How Can We Win.” “So if I played four hundred rounds of Monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for fifty years, every time that I played, if you didn't like what I did, you got to burn it like they did in Tulsa and like they did in Rosewood, how can you win? How can you win?" When Kimberly Jones declared these words amid the protests spurred by the murder of George Floyd, she gave a history lesson that in just over six minutes captured the economic struggles of Black people in America. Within days the video had been viewed by millions of people around the world, riveted by Jones’s damning—and stunningly succinct—analysis of the enduring disparities Black Americans face. In How We Can Win, Jones delves into the impacts of systemic racism and reveals how her formative years in Chicago gave birth to a lifelong devotion to justice. Here, in a vital expansion of her declaration, she calls for Reconstruction 2.0, a multilayered plan to reclaim economic and social restitutions—those restitutions promised with emancipation but blocked, again and again, for more than 150 years. And, most of all, Jones delivers strategies for how we can effect change as citizens and allies while nurturing ourselves—the most valuable asset we have—in the fight against a system that is still rigged.
Author : Mollie Hemingway
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1684512638
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER JUSTICE ON TRIAL Stunned by the turbulence of the 2020 election, millions of Americans are asking the forbidden question: what really happened? It was a devastating triple punch. Capping their four-year campaign to destroy the Trump presidency, the media portrayed a Democratic victory as necessary and inevitable. Big Tech, wielding unprecedented powers, vaporized dissent and erased damning reports about the Biden family's corruption. And Democratic operatives, exploiting a public health crisis, shamelessly manipulated the voting process itself. Silenced and subjected, the American people lost their faith in the system. RIGGED is the definitive account of the 2020 election. Based on Mollie Hemingway's exclusive interviews with campaign officials, reporters, Supreme Court justices, and President Trump himself, it exposes the fraud and cynicism behind the Democrats' historic power-grab. Rewriting history is a specialty of the radical left, now in control of America's political and cultural heights. But they will have to contend with the determination, insight, and eloquence of Mollie Hemingway. RIGGED is a reminder for weary patriots that truth is still the most powerful weapon. The stakes for our democracy have never been higher.
Author : Cameron Murray
Publisher : Publicious Pty Limited
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 11,36 MB
Release : 2017-04-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780648061106
James is our most mundane villain. His victim is Bruce, our typical Aussie, who bleeds from the hip pocket because of James' actions. Game of Mates tells a tale of economic theft across major sectors of Australia's economy, showing how James and his group of well-connected Mates siphon off billions from the economy to line their own pockets. In property, mining, transport, banking, superannuation, and many more sectors, James and his Mates cooperate to steal huge chunks of the economic pie for themselves. If you want to know how much this costs the nation, how it is done, and what we can do about it, Game of Mates is the book for you.
Author : Kristin Henning
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 21,41 MB
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1524748919
A brilliant analysis of the foundations of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, largely hidden from public view, endured by Black youth growing up under constant police surveillance and the persistent threat of physical and psychological abuse "Storytelling that can make people understand the racial inequities of the legal system, and...restore the humanity this system has cruelly stripped from its victims.” —New York Times Book Review Drawing upon twenty-five years of experience representing Black youth in Washington, D.C.’s juvenile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America’s irrational, manufactured fears of these young people and makes a powerfully compelling case that the crisis in racist American policing begins with its relationship to Black children. Henning explains how discriminatory and aggressive policing has socialized a generation of Black teenagers to fear, resent, and resist the police, and she details the long-term consequences of racism that they experience at the hands of the police and their vigilante surrogates. She makes clear that unlike White youth, who are afforded the freedom to test boundaries, experiment with sex and drugs, and figure out who they are and who they want to be, Black youth are seen as a threat to White America and are denied healthy adolescent development. She examines the criminalization of Black adolescent play and sexuality, and of Black fashion, hair, and music. She limns the effects of police presence in schools and the depth of police-induced trauma in Black adolescents. Especially in the wake of the recent unprecedented, worldwide outrage at racial injustice and inequality, The Rage of Innocence is an essential book for our moment.
