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“A provocative, insightful analysis of the way
credit cards have transformed the American marketplace and society.”
—Stephen Brobeck, Executive Director Consumer Federation of
America
“From credit cards to predatory lending to pay-day
loans, Robert Manning takes a thoughtful and comprehensive look
at life on the financial edge, where credit comes at too high a
price for those who can least afford it. Credit Card Nation also
documents the disturbing emergence of a two-tiered structure for
financial services in this country—one for middle- and upper-income
individuals, another for lower-income, working people with no or
impaired credit.”
—U.S. Representative John J. LaFalce (D-NY), Ranking Member,
Committee on Banking and Financial Services
“Credit Card Nation is a rousing indictment
of the new millennium's Robber Barons—the merchants of debt
who prey on the young, the poor, the overextended. This is the book
America's finance industry deserves.”
—Michael Hudson, co-author, Merchants of Misery: How Corporate
America Profits from Poverty
“Robert Manning has carefully studied the rising
tide of debt our nation’s young people have taken on, and
he has thoughtfully considered the consequences. Although the warning
signs have been ignored by many, his study should shed significant
light on this looming problem. His warnings should be heeded by
policymakers, politicians, and parents, and especially by corporations,
who stand to lose the most if students ruin their credit records.
How did we let it go this far?”
—Michael A. Olivas, author of Dollars, Scholars, and Public
Policy: Financing College Debt in the 21st Century
“In Credit Card Nation, Manning provides
insights to a pop culture in which economic and social trends have
led to ever increasing consumer and student credit card debt.”
—Roger L. Witherspoon, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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