Description: Broke explores the consequences of recent unprecedented growth in consumer debt and shows how excessive borrowing undermines the prosperity of middle class America.
Review Quotes: "Katherine Porter has edited an important contribution to the literature on family economic distress, the lived-experience of families in debt, and related issues of the intersections of social class, gender, and race with each other, as well as education, employment, and homownership. . . When used in graduate programs in law, social work, or other fiels whose practitioners confront these issues, advocates can utilize this valuable resource in their daily work."--Michael D. Gillespie, International Review of Modern Sociology