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Shares tips for becoming an informed consumer, with do-it-yourself fixes, insider resources, and ways to decipher misinformation or withheld information about consumer goods and services.

"Cut Adrift makes an important and original contribution to the national conversation about inequality and risk in American society. Set against the backdrop of rising economic insecurity and rolled up safety nets, Marianne Cooper explores what keeps Americans up at night. Through poignant case studies, she reveals what families are concerned about, how they manage their anxiety, whose job it is to worry, and how social class shapes all of these dynamics,...