White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness In America, Williams - B+

                     This book is a discussion of the challenges facing non-college graduates, whose wages have been halved in the last half century, while the elites have stopped connecting with them and have written off their anger as racism, sexism and xenophobia. Fully two-thirds of the country have no chance for the good life, and have become extremely disaffected. The author refers to this group as the 'working class', those neither in the top 20%, nor the bottom 30%. The term 'middle class' seems the most descriptive, but it has lost its place since so many Americans, including those at the top and on the bottom, label themselves as such. For this book, the working class is, in 2015 numbers and statistics, those between $40,000 and $130,000 of family income. They receive fewer government subsidies than the poor and seriously resent what those poor get, because they believe they follow the rules and the poor don't. They believe in family values and view the raising of a successful nuclear family as a major accomplishment. Working class people are closer to their extended family than elites are and they do not consider relocating as easily as elites do. They do not consider college as a must. They feel resentments and injustice at their place in society.  They simply want decent jobs. They're not interested in safety nets, and probably don't realize they do receive substantial, but often disguised, subsidies from the government. They are tired of being disdained by the elites. They simply want to work. 

                  This very short book (117 pps.) is an expansion of an article in the Harvard Business review. It, and the author, a California based law professor, have received widespread support and acclaim for the ideas set forth herein. The author posits the question whether the liberal elites can accommodate this group and suggests that the answer is yes. Required is understanding, training for all in civics leading to an acknowledgement that the government is not our enemy, and once again - decent jobs and respect.