The CFPB announced on January 18, 2017, that they are filing a lawsuit against Navient (the country’s
largest student loan servicer) for cheating borrowers; see Maggie McGrath, “CFPB Sues Student Loan Servicer
Navient for Failing Borrowers ‘At Every Stage,’” forbes.com, January 18, 2017,
http://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2017/01/18/cfpb-sues-student-loan-servicer-navient-for-failing-
borrowers-at-every-stage/#5fa7094d477d.
Mettler, The Submerged State , 15.
http://www.itgetsbetter.org/. I recognize that different levels of government are involved in, for example,
sewers. My goal is a civics lesson, not a lesson in the arcane details of public finance.
J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (New York: Harper, 2016), 189.
Lamont, The Dignity of Working Men , 35.
Joan C. Williams, Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 2010), 197.
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Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, “Democrats at Crossroads: Win Back Working-Class Whites, or
Let Them Go?” New York Times , December 15, 2016,
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/us/politics/democrats-joe-biden-hillary-clinton.html?_r=0.
Jennifer Bendery, “Pick Any LGBTQ Rights Issue. Jeff Sessions Has Voted Against It,” Huffington Post ,
November 22, 2016, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions-lgbt-
rights_us_58346cd9e4b030997bc1524f.
Peter Holley, “KKK’s Official Newspaper Supports Donald Trump for President,” Washington Post ,
November 2, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/11/01/the-kkks-official-
newspaper-has-endorsed-donald-trump-for-president/?utm_term=.0999655a2360.
Tami Luhby and Jennifer Agiesta, “Exit Polls: Clinton Fails to Energize African-Americans, Latinos and
the Young,” cnn.com, November 9, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/08/politics/first-exit-polls-2016/.
Jens Manuel Krogstad, Mark Hugo Lopez, Gustavo López, Jeffrey S. Passel, and Eileen Patten, “1.
Looking Forward to 2016: The Changing Latino Electorate,” Pew Research Center, January 19, 2016,
http://www.pewhispanic.org/2016/01/19/looking-forward-to-2016-the-changing-latino-electorate/.
Marcela Valdes, “‘We’re Looking at a New Divide Within the Hispanic Community,’” New York Times
Magazine , November 15, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/20/magazine/donald-trumps-
america-florida-latino-vote.html?_r=0.
Philippe Sands, East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity” (New
York: Knopf, 2016).
Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
(New York: New Press, 2016), 141, quoting Phillip Longman, “Wealth and Generations,” Washington Monthly ,
June-July-August 2015, http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/junejulyaug-2015/wealth-and-generations/.
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