Down the Up Escalator, by Barbara Garson

How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 28, 2013

Barbara Garson talks about the human costs of our economic recession and slow recovery. In Down the Up Escalator: How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession Garson interviewed an economically and geographically wide variety of Americans to show how loss and insecurity is affecting their lives. She looks at the consequences of the stag­nation of wages and our growing reliance on credit.

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