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?
Moisés Naím | Posted 10.05.2011
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.
BBC News | Paul Mason | Posted 09.28.2011
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...
Tony Phillips | Posted 08.21.2011
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...
Robert Schwab | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
C. Cryn Johannsen | Posted 05.25.2011
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?
Michael Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Lawrence H. Summers | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Marcella Mroczkowski | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011
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 ...
David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011
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 ...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011
Unionization is how the middle class re-emerges. America could do without a few filthy-rich boys lolling on yachts in the Mediterranean.
Chicago Tribune | John Keilman and Gerry Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
A new report by the Pew Research Center highlights a paradox of the American middle class: Most people, no matter where they fall on the economic spec...
Chad Stone | Posted 01.31.2012