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American Middle Class

'Upscale Hispanics' Could Help Rebuild U.S. Middle Class

VOXXI | Kim Piston | Posted 06.10.2013 | Latino Voices

They’re being called the most influential segment since the baby boomers. They accounted for 29 percent of the overall Hispanic spend in 2012, a num...

Jan Diehm

LOOK: The Middle Class Is Disappearing

HuffingtonPost.com | Jan Diehm | Posted 06.07.2013 | Business

As President Obama continues his “Middle Class Jobs and Opportunities Tour" in Mooresville, N.C., on Thursday, middle-class Americans continue to ex...

9 Middle-Class Jobs That Are On The Decline

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 04.05.2013 | Business

It is getting harder to find a job that can support a middle-class lifestyle. That's because the recession and the subsequent recovery have been pa...

Why 700 Striking Health Care Workers in Washington Matter

Mary Kay Henry | Posted 05.21.2013 | Politics
Mary Kay Henry

Providence health workers are standing up, on behalf of all working people, to send a clear message that "normal" cannot be hardworking people being forced to decide whether they or their children get the health care they need while already rich CEOs get pay increases.

The Truth About the Middle Class

Rep. Jan Schakowsky | Posted 04.01.2013 | Politics
Rep. Jan Schakowsky

"The Myth of a Stagnant Middle Class" by Donald Boudreaux and Mark Perry argues that the stagnant middle class is a "myth." They are wrong. The truth is the middle class is not only stagnant but it is my fear that, without sustained and focused action, it is at risk of disappearing.

Defying Gravity: The History of 40 Years of Wealth Falling Up

Dan Froomkin | Posted 12.22.2012 | Books
Dan Froomkin

Who stole the American Dream? The short answer to the question in the title of Hedrick Smith's new book is: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Wal-Mart. But the longer answer is one heck of a story, told by one of the great journalists of our time.

Is The Middle Class Dying?

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 09.13.2012 | Home

There is an implicit promise in America that as long as you work hard, you can raise a family and lead a comfortable life. But is the U.S. keeping thi...

A New Report on the Middle Class

Jared Bernstein | Posted 10.23.2012 | Business
Jared Bernstein

The Pew Research Center just released a report worth a close look, called "The Lost Decade of the Middle Class."

Clues to the Heist of American Economy Found in 40-Year-Old Memo

Frances Causey | Posted 10.13.2012 | Politics
Frances Causey

This "ideological marketing organization, " along with its clones, soon began pumping out free market propaganda that was peddled to the mainstream media on a daily basis. And wouldn't you know it-it soon became the dominant language of our politics and economics, with Ronald Reagan as its spokesman?

Arrow to the Heart of Inequality

Chad Stone | Posted 01.31.2012 | Politics
Chad Stone

Our series of posts this week describing trends in income inequality has prompted a natural question: what has caused the sharp rise in inequality over the past three decades or so?

The Clash of the Middle Classes

Moisés Naím | Posted 10.05.2011 | World
Moisés Naím

Governments in the poorer countries are under enormous pressure to meet the booming demands of the new middle class while those of the richer nations are struggling to contain the fall in living standards of the existing bourgeoisie.

Return Of America's Middle-Class Underclass

BBC News | Paul Mason | Posted 09.28.2011 | Business

In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck describes the harrowing journey of the Joad family - migrant workers forced to leave their home during the Grea...

Small, Median and Obscenely Large: There's Nothing Average About the Middle Class

Tony Phillips | Posted 08.21.2011 | Politics
Tony Phillips

SAN DIEGO -- I live with my wife and a 13-year-old and while each of us is different, we do all agree on some fundamental issues. Here are three thing...

Save a Middle-Class Dream

Robert Schwab | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Robert Schwab

Many believe there would be no middle class if unions did not organize a third of the workforce after World War II, one of the most prosperous eras in the nation's history.

Laura Bassett

Middle Class Children Increasingly Relying On Public Programs, Report Finds

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

Since the income gap between middle-class and wealthy families in the United States has grown by more than 50 percent since 1985, middle-class parents...

College Educated Graduates Who Can't Buy Homes and Can't Have Families

C. Cryn Johannsen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
C. Cryn Johannsen

You have a generation of recent grads who have no purchasing power and who, not by choice, will remain childless. How's that for a healthy and robust middle class?

Losing America: The Way Backwards

Michael Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Michael Brenner

The great virtue of Arianna Huffington's latest book, Third World America, is its incisiveness and candor in explaining how we have gone off the rails -- and the extent of the wreckage.

Third World America: Chronicling the Assault on America's Middle Class...and the Solutions

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Arianna Huffington

From foreclosures to unemployment to household debt to bankruptcies, the American middle class is under assault -- and America is in danger of becoming a Third World nation.

Laura Bassett

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

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...

Relief for Middle Class Families

Lawrence H. Summers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Lawrence H. Summers

It has been a trying time for Americans since the recession began nearly two and a half years ago, and we still have a long way to go. Relief for middle class families is indispensable to our efforts to lay a new foundation for our future prosperity.

Wall Street's War on the Middle Class: My Response to Hedge Fund President David Einhorn

Marcella Mroczkowski | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Marcella Mroczkowski

When it comes to protecting the Middle Class from financial shenanigans, I want the best regulators money can buy. Federal employees are not overpaid, Mr. Einhorn. You are.

Laura Bassett

Former Middle Class Family Loses Sight Of The American Dream

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

As part of our Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up local stories of formerly middle-class families who are now struggling ...

$250,000 A Year Is Not Middle Class Anywhere In America

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
David Sirota

Media voices perpetuate these myths of the impoverished wealthy, in part, because many media voices are themselves wealthy -- and there's no more powerful class solidarity than that which exists among the rich.

Laura Bassett

Rattlesnake For Breakfast, Wedding Rings On Craigslist: Families Cope With Falling Out Of The Middle Class

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

As part of our Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up local stories of formerly middle-class families who are now struggling ...

Half Measures and Lukewarm "Reform" Won't Save the Middle Class

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Joseph A. Palermo

Let's hope that when Obama speaks Congress he outlines not only a bold program to provide health care for all Americans, but also a set of proposals to lift the middle class out of its currently dismal economic condition.