Middle Class Pain

Laura Bassett

DISAPPEARING MIDDLE CLASS: 60-Year-Old Couple Lose Their Jobs And Home

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosure Crisis, Middle Class Economy, Third World America, Wells Fargo, Middle Class, Mortgage Crisis, American Middle Class, Middle Class Pain, Impact News

In 2008, David LaRochelle and his wife, Debbie, owned two houses: a single-family home in Southern Florida and a double-wide mobile home in Plains, Ge...

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America's Dirty Little Secret: Who's Really Poor in America?

Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: US-Homelessness, Unemployment, Middle Class Economy, Middle Class Pain, US Poverty, Recession, Politics News
Leo Hindery, Jr.

The overwhelming problem today for most workers isn't this recession, as horrible as it is -- it's the fact that for every earned income level except the top 10%, average household income hasn't changed a bit for 10 years.

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New Agenda for America: Income Inequality Threatens America's Basic Economic and Political Systems

Bruce Judson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bruce Judson, Financial Meltdown, Middle Class Pain, Income Inequality, New Deal 2.0, Business News
Bruce Judson

With each job loss or foreclosure, another family -- now on a downward spiral -- potentially loses its faith in our basic economic system and our basic system of governance.

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Watershed Moment

Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: International Politics, Politics, Middle Class Pain, Economy, Middle Class, Freddie, Fannie, Business News
Max Fraad Wolff

The teetering state of the mortgage markets and the $4.6-$4.9 trillion position of Fannie and Freddie placed the GSE at the center of these crises.

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The Vanishing Middle Class

Robyn Blumner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Economy, Middle Class Pain, Job Cuts, The Middle Class, Weak Economy, Economy, Middle Class, Consumer Spending, Politics News
Robyn Blumner

We now live in a country where there is no financial margin for most families to fall back on in case someone gets sick or a job is lost: life is far riskier than during the 1970s' economic crisis.

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