Jacob Hacker Says Average Americans Bear Burden of Economic Crisis

KCRW, To the Point, July 17, hosted by Warren Olney
http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/tp/tp080717economic_crisis_real

“What we have now is a very substantial financial crisis that is intersecting with a long-term decline in the security of Americans, and the combination of those two is what makes the present situation so worrisome. The safety net, in other words, that families have has gotten more tattered, particularly for those who haven’t shared in the economic growth of the last ten years.”