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x I Acknowledgments It surprises me that even with the slimmest of books one accumulates a mountain of debts, but so it goes. Although almost all of the larger insights in this book are channeled directly from conversations with other EPI researchers and writers, both past and present, I hesitate to list them because I might forget some. Among current EPI research staff, Kathryn Edwards, Kai Filion, Elise Gould, Andrew Green, Larry Mishel, and Heidi Shierholz all produced charts, provided data, or reviewed numbers for the book. Ross Eisenbrey, Jody Franklin, John Irons, and Joe Procopio all read the manuscript and offered helpful suggestions as well as generally helped keep the whole endeavor moving down the tracks. Anna Turner served as overall general manager for the book—producing graphs, tracking down data, reviewing the text, and fact checking everything. It probably would’ve been very little extra work for her to have written the whole thing. Despite all the valuable assistance I received, any bungles in translation are strictly mine. Finally, Holley and Finn continue to provide more-than-plausible excuses as to why I’ve yet to reach my full professional potential, and for this I couldn’t be happier. ...

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