Middle Class Pain

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

Bruce Judson | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business

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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 10.12.2008 | Business

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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 07.09.2008 | Politics

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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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