The Riches of This Land: The Untold, True Story of America’’s Middle Class

　　要了解中產階級，除了那些身在其中、光鮮亮麗的人們以外，還需要了解另一群在夾縫中求生存、卻時刻被遺忘的人們。吉姆．譚克斯利研究中產階級十年有餘，在本書中，他從解開1970年代以後的美國經濟大謎團開始，剖析核心問題：為何我們沒有創造出更多更好的工作機會，取代舊有的爛職缺？輔以政治與經濟相關研究報告，生動描繪出中產階級的衰落與復甦，並提出共創榮景的解方。

　　一直以來，許多人認為中產階級之所以崛起，多半是來自男性及白人的貢獻，事實上，女性及少數族裔在其中扮演了至關重要的角色。此外，在經濟狀況劇變的環境下，政府卻從沒有什麼因應措施，導致極少數人掌握了經濟成長所帶來的利益，有錢人變得更有錢。而後，川普的相關經濟策略更是惹惱美國移民、少數族裔及女性，讓美國再陷危機。

　　要解決目前的問題、創造更多的財富，其實很簡單，就是創造更多就業機會，讓更多不分性別、不分族裔的人民，都有機會開發他們的無限潛能，那麼他們不僅能為自己和大眾創造更多價值，還能打破階級僵化的狀態，再創榮景便不再只是一個口號而已。(文/博客來編譯)

A vivid character-driven narrative, fused with important new economic and political reporting and research, that busts the myths about middle class decline and points the way to its revival.

For over a decade, Jim Tankersley has been on a journey to understand what the hell happened to the world’s greatest middle-class success story -- the post-World-War-II boom that faded into decades of stagnation and frustration for American workers. In The Riches of This Land, Tankersley fuses the story of forgotten Americans-- struggling women and men who he met on his journey into the travails of the middle class-- with important new economic and political research, providing fresh understanding how to create a more widespread prosperity. He begins by unraveling the real mystery of the American economy since the 1970s - not where did the jobs go, but why haven’t new and better ones been created to replace them.
His analysis begins with the revelation that women and minorities played a far more crucial role in building the post-war middle class than today’s politicians typically acknowledge, and policies that have done nothing to address the structural shifts of the American economy have enabled a privileged few to capture nearly all the benefits of America’s growing prosperity. Meanwhile, the ＂angry white men of Ohio＂ have been sold by Trump and his ilk a theory of the economy that is dangerously backward, one that pits them against immigrants, minorities, and women who should be their allies.
At the culmination of his journey, Tankersley lays out specific policy prescriptions and social undertakings that can begin moving the needle in the effort to make new and better jobs appear. By fostering an economy that opens new pathways for all workers to reach their full potential -- men and women, immigrant or native-born, regardless of race -- America can once again restore the upward flow of talent that can power growth and prosperity.

Jim Tankersley, a tax and economics reporter for the New York Times, has written extensively about the stagnation of the American middle class, the decline of economic opportunity in wide swaths of the country and how policy changes in Washington have exacerbated those trends over the past few decades.Prior to the Times, Tankersley was the policy and politics editor at Vox, economic policy correspondent for the Washington Post, and economic and political reporter at the National Journal. He started his career with stints at The Oregonian, The Rocky Mountain News, and The Toledo Blade. At The Blade he was a member of the Coingate team that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He and a Blade colleague won the 2007 Livingston Award for Young Journalists for a series of stories demonstrating how and why the Ohio economy declined so dramatically over the course of a generation.