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Middle Class

Bridging NYC's Income Inequality Gap

Bill de Blasio | Posted 06.12.2013 | New York
Bill de Blasio

CEO pay averages an annual salary of $9.7 million -- 354 times what the average worker earns. There are even restaurants that offer diners $1,000 caviar pizza. But nearly half of all New Yorkers are at or below the poverty level.

Jan Diehm

LOOK: Inequality In U.S. Is Scarily High, Rising

HuffingtonPost.com | Jan Diehm | Posted 06.12.2013 | Business

President Obama acknowledged Monday that inequality is on the rise "even though the economy is growing." That growth hasn't helped many people who los...

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...

What's Speeding Up The Death Of The Middle Class

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 06.05.2013 | Business

When the autopsy is written on the death of the middle class, the current lousy economic recovery will be a major contributing factor, according to a ...

Rep. Steve Israel: Let's Start With Child Care

Rep. Steve Israel | Posted 06.04.2013 | Women
Rep. Steve Israel

Many of my constituents tell me about the struggles they've faced when figuring out how to balance a career -- and a much-needed income -- with raising children. Or they talk about deciding whether it was financially worth it for them to return to work versus staying home with their kids.

Why The World's Middle Class Got Screwed, And What We Can Do About It

Upworthy | Brandon Weber | Posted 06.04.2013 | Politics

If young people, the unemployed, and the middle class come together, we have the power to create something much better for everyone. ...

Victim Blaming Has Achieved a New Low Watermark

Lori Day | Posted 06.03.2013 | Media
Lori Day

When you consider that animals bring on their own assaults, it is not hard to understand this same mentality when applied to all sorts of people by other people.

Reframing the Debate

Robert Reich | Posted 05.30.2013 | Politics
Robert Reich

Even as the economy slowly recovers from the worst downturn since the Great Depression, government-haters and deficit-hawks are sticking to their same story: Americans have lived beyond their means and must now learn to live within them. The reality is quite different.

Will Smith and the Misunderstanding of Black Parenting

Ernest Owens | Posted 05.28.2013 | Black Voices
Ernest Owens

Black parenting isn't child abuse or slavery, Will Smith. It is a more invested interactive experience fostered to prepare children for the world they will face.

7 Reasons Why the Labor Movement Has Stalled

David Macaray | Posted 05.28.2013 | Business
David Macaray

While there still seems to be strong and genuine "pro-worker" sentiment throughout the country, there's little codified social/political activism to go along with it.

What Sweden's Riots Say About Europe's Rising Social and Political Risks

Daniel Wagner | Posted 05.28.2013 | World
Daniel Wagner

The riots in Sweden last week are a manifestation of the socioeconomic disequilibrium pervading much of Europe, and the level of frustration that is beginning to boil over among European immigrants and youth.

Social Class and the College Choices of High School Valedictorians

Lisa Wade | Posted 05.17.2013 | College
Lisa Wade

For the parents out there, it's a good idea to push past our own comfort zones when thinking about what might be possible for our kids.

WATCH: Can The Middle Class Survive The Instagram Economy?

Posted 05.15.2013 | Technology

In its heyday, Kodak employed 140,000 people. Today, Kodak's replacement Instagram employs under 30. Is it possible for the middle class to thrive whe...

Obama Heads To Texas To Talk Middle-Class Jobs

Posted 05.09.2013 | Politics

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE , The ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Aiming to show he's still focused on creating jobs, President Barack Obama is beginning ...

March Trade Deficit Better -- Why This Matters More Than Budget Deficit

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.02.2013 | Business
Dave Johnson

The balance of trade is important because trade is how our country makes a living as a country. This huge continuing deficit matters, because it is literally draining money and jobs (and factories and industries) from our economy.

Minimum Wage Raise Essential to Fix Our Economy

Dave Johnson | Posted 06.19.2013 | Business
Dave Johnson

It is the nature of our current economic system that things will concentrate into fewer and fewer hands. When you let the ones with more money win the game and set the rules it is inevitable that they will increasingly set the rules to they always win the game.

Middle Class Could See Negative Effects Of Obama Proposal

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 06.13.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Retired city worker Sheila Pugach lives in a modest home on a quiet street in Albuquerque, N.M., and drives an 18-year-old Subaru. ...

10 Reasons To Quit Your Job This Year

James Altucher | Posted 06.05.2013 | Small Business
James Altucher

I was a slave trying to escape but I didn't know how. I wanted to start a business but I didn't know what. I wanted to create something but I would play games all day, burning up the fuel in my brain.

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 Are Liberals Falling Down the Rabbit Hole?

Michelle Kraus | Posted 06.03.2013 | Politics
Michelle Kraus

Why are liberals falling down the rabbit hole? Oh woe is me, bemoan liberals far and wide across this country. The president is not doing this or that...

Great Recession Creates 'The New Homeless'

The American Prospect | Posted 03.27.2013 | Politics

In the Denver suburbs, as in much of the U.S., the Great Recession turned formerly stable families into the new homeless—and left many living in bud...

Being a woman in a schizophrenic male world

Monique Villa | Posted 05.27.2013 | Women
Monique Villa

This past week, chatting away at the dinner table, I was asked about one of my favorite books. My answer was swift: 'Il Gattopardo' -"The Leopard"- th...

A Whole New Definition of "Luxury"

David Macaray | Posted 05.25.2013 | Business
David Macaray

Union membership is a luxury. A middle-class income is a luxury. In fact, everything north of genteel poverty is a luxury. In some ways, it feels like the storied American Labor Movement never happened.

Learning from an Eighth Grader

William B. Bradshaw | Posted 05.18.2013 | Politics
William B. Bradshaw

In my opinion, all of us need to stop blaming one another and do away with the negativism that divides the various segments of our population and work toward being Americans in the truest sense of the melting pot, of being a cohesive whole.

Elizabeth Warren Has New Move Up Her Sleeve

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.19.2013 | Politics

NEW YORK — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, already an experienced author, has a lot more to write about. The Massachusetts Democrat is working on a...