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 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.

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?

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?

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.