···1.·小说家艾曼纽·卡黑尔（Emmanuel Carrere）将此段剧情描述为裁员之下的恐怖电影：「他用整天的时间四处游荡，但必须避开自己家里周围。他不和任何人交谈，路上每一张脸都使他惊疑，深怕是自己的前同事。」 Emmanuel Carrere, The Adversary, (Picador).
···2.·“2016 Student Loan Data U禁止歧视怀孕法te,” Center for Microeconomic Data, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, https://www.newyorkfed.org /microeconomics/databank.html.
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···4.·“Household Debt and Credit: 2017 Q2 Report,” Center for Microeconomic Data, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, https:// www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/hhdc/background.html.
···5.·PatriciaCohen, “Over 50, Female and Jobless Even as Others Return to Work,” New York Times, January 1, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/02/business/economy/over-50-female-and-jobless-even-as-others-return-to-work.html.
···6.·“Charge Statistics (Charges Filed with EEOC) FY 1997 through FY 2016,” U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, https://www .eeoc.gov/eeoc/statistics/enforcement/charges.cfm.
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···9.·Camila Domonoske, “Judge Approves $25 Million Settlement of Trump University Lawsuit,” NPR, March 31, 2017, http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/31/522199535/judge-approves-25-million-settlement-of-trump-university-lawsuit .
10.·Patrick Danner, “San Antonio House-Flipper Montelongo Sued by 164 Ex-Students,” San Antonio Express-News, March 2, 2016, http://www.expressnews .com/real-estate/article/San-Antonio-house-flipper-Montelongo -sued-by-164-6866991.php.
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12.·F. Scott Fitzgerald, “My Lost City,” in My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940, ed. James L. W. West III (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 114.
13.·Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March (New York: Viking Press, 1953), 1.
14.·Theodore Dreiser, The Financier (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1912; reprint, New York: Penguin, 2008), 20.
15.·或如同毕甫·罗曼（主角之子）所言：「在高中毕业后，我用了六至七年的时间试图工作养活自己。货运公司的文书员、销售员、各式各样的生意。那些都像是最低贱的存在。必须在炎热的夏日清晨挤上地铁……且总是必须比别人抢先一步。」Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman (Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin Books, 1996), 22.
16.·Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts’ Advice to Women (New York: Random House, 2005), 331.
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18.·Lance Williams, “How Corinthian Colleges, a For-Profit Behemoth, Suddenly Imploded,” Reveal, September 20, 2016, https://www .revealnews.org/article/how-corinthian-colleges-a-for-profit -behemoth-suddenly-imploded/.
19.·为了缓解中年失业父母所面临的困境，还有许多更常见的方法，像是公费赞助且有目标的就职训练，跟像现在许多企图寻找自己第二、第三人生者所遭遇到的灾难大杂烩般，有所差别。此种职业训练不同于以往：没那么多个人主义，以务实为目标，着重于填补人力市场的人手短缺，而不是那些以个人或唯利是图教育的想法为重。我们国家可以策划更多由联邦或州政府层级出资赞助的就职训练，并鼓励更多的工会和非营利组织去发展学徒制计划。就现况而言，美国政府花在职业训练体制与再受训上的预算，远低于其他已开发国家。前总统欧巴马也曾试着在其第二任内，推动德国式的学徒制，希望能满足机械操作员和机器人专家上的人手短缺。目前，「美国学徒制」（ApprenticeshiopUSA）也正在打造一个类似的体制。联邦政府每年给予该计划九千万美元的经费，用于补助各州的学徒制度（尤其针对新兴产业）。
