Balance: How We Restore the Middle Class and Save America
What happened to the American Dream?
How did a nation built on fairness, dignity, hard work, and shared prosperity become a place where two incomes can barely support a family, the richest 1% own more wealth than the bottom 50%, and CEO pay has exploded beyond anything our parents or grandparents would have recognized?
And-most importantly-how do we fix it?
In BALANCE, Alex Campbell delivers a powerful, deeply personal, and unapologetically hopeful blueprint for restoring the only thing that ever made America truly strong: a thriving middle class. Drawing on his life as the adopted son of blue-collar parents in Grass Lake, Michigan, his service as a U.S. Air Force intelligence analyst, his years in the mortgage world during the 2008 collapse, and his career in human resources, Campbell weaves together memoir, economics, history, and moral clarity into a story that speaks to Americans across every political line.
At the center of this book is a bold but elegantly simple solution:
A federal 250:1 cap on the ratio between a company's highest-paid employee and its median worker.Not as punishment.
Not as a socialist experiment.
But as the logical, data-backed, historically grounded policy that would:
Double or triple wages for millions
Rebuild the middle class
Expand the tax base without raising taxes
Pay down the national debt
Strengthen national security
Revitalize American families and communities
End the race-to-the-bottom economy
Make work worth doing again
Campbell argues-compellingly-that income inequality is not just an economic problem. It is a cultural problem, a mental health problem, a family stability problem, and a national security problem. A nation where workers are exhausted, underpaid, distrustful, and stretched to the breaking point is not a strong nation. It's a vulnerable one.
This book is not left or right.
It is not ideological.
It is American.
Through moving personal stories, sharp analysis, and a vision rooted in dignity and fairness, BALANCE shows how we can finally restore the promise that every generation before us believed in: that hard work should lead somewhere.
This isn't a policy book.
It's a movement.
A movement for parents who want a future for their kids.
A movement for workers who feel invisible.
A movement for conservatives tired of corporate exploitation.
A movement for liberals tired of inequality.
A movement for independents tired of choosing between two broken options.
A movement for anyone who still believes America can be better than this.
If you believe the American Dream isn't dead-but stolen-this book shows you how we take it back.
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