Obama Middle Class

The Downward Mobility of the American Middle Class, and Why Mitt Romney Doesn't Know

Robert Reich | Posted 04.07.2012

Robert Reich

Mitt Romney says he's not concerned about the very poor because they have safety nets to protect them. He says he's concerned about the middle class. Romney doesn't seem to realize how much of the middle class is becoming poor.

Joy Resmovits

Can Obama Deliver On His College Affordability Promises?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.09.2012

NEPTUNE BEACH, Fla. -- When Joe Biden traveled here last week with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to host a town hall on college affordabilit...

Channeling the Trustbuster

Mike Lux | Posted 02.06.2012

Mike Lux

It is fashionable in political circles today to say that speeches don't matter much. While I have a high degree of skepticism about politicians, and know painfully well how often they fall short of their words, I am of a different view.

Poor No More! Or That "Hard Working Middle Class" Baloney

Sherman Yellen | Posted 05.25.2011

Sherman Yellen

The one thing Obama and Palin have in common? Everyone is middle class. To call a man or woman poor is to insult them -- to call them a failure in this land of plenty.

Laura Bassett

Middle Class Children Increasingly Relying On Public Programs, Report Finds

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...

WATCH: Obama Says Tax Cut Deal Imperfect, But Still Worth It

Posted 05.25.2011

Darlene Superville, Associated Press WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama calls his tax-cut agreement with Republicans far from perfect but a good d...

Defining Class in America: Has the Economic Crisis Brought Us Closer Together?

Curtis Valentine | Posted 05.25.2011

Curtis Valentine

Amid all the discussion about "Middle Class Tax Cuts" and the "War on the Middle Class," there has been little attention paid to the puzzling fact that Americans still do not have a hard and fast definition for middle class.

The Great American Credit Catastrophe Is Our Generation's 9/11

Michelle Kraus | Posted 05.25.2011

Michelle Kraus

The housing crisis is just one piece of the big, ugly mess of the consumer credit debacle. It seems to me that our president must call for immediate reform and take action through executive order.

WATCH: Small Business Owners Mixed On Obama's Aid Plan

The Huffington Post | Samira Nanda and Hunter Stuart | Posted 05.25.2011

Small business owners are mixed on the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama earlier this week. The...

Dan Froomkin

Larry Summers Optimistic About Middle Class

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Top presidential economic adviser Larry Summers declared on Tuesday that the future of the American economy depends on a robust middle class. Speakin...

Sam Stein

Obama Hints At Procedural Compromise On Bush Tax Cuts, Says GOP's Holding 'Middle Class Hostage'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

In his first press conference since late May, President Obama offered one of the sternest rebukes to date of the Republican Party's position on the Bu...

WATCH: Obama Pledges To Help The Middle Class

Posted 05.25.2011

Darlene Superville, Associated Press WASHINGTON - A healthy economy needs bustling Main Streets and a thriving middle class even more than a healthy ...

Memo to America's Middle Class: Obama Is Just Not That Into You

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

Arianna Huffington

If Obama is going to do the right thing for America's middle class, it's going to take Hope 2.0 -- the people have to make him do it.

Dan Froomkin

Biden To Wall-Street-Friendly Democrats: The Middle Class Comes First

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Vice President Biden today challenged a gathering of Wall-Street-friendly Democrats to join President Obama in making sure that this economic recovery...

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

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

Is The Middle-Class American Dream Still In Reach?

The Huffington Post | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

President Obama and Vice President Biden previewed their proposals to help the middle class on Monday. The president said the "middle class has been u...

Sam Stein

Middle Class Task Force: Obama, Biden Launch Plans For Working Families

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

The Obama administration announced the creation of a White House Task Force on Middle Class Working Families on Friday during a ceremony demonstrating...

Deer Hunting With Democrats

Nick Penniman | Posted 05.25.2011

Nick Penniman

McCain is inarticulate about the economy, and the Republican brand is more tarnished than it has been in decades.

Upper Class Pillaging

Mike Garibaldi-Frick | Posted 05.25.2011

Mike Garibaldi-Frick

Warren Buffet says, "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."

Taxes Are Not Always A Bad Thing

Jennifer Bernard | Posted 05.25.2011

Jennifer Bernard

The taxes on Joe-the-Plumber's $250,000 bought me my first-grade textbooks when my family was on food stamps. I do not feel guilty that Joe may have had to drink less-expensive champagne that year so that I could have a sandwich for dinner.

Obama Flip-Flops on Pledge to 'End Diversion of Federal Small Business Contracts to Corporate Giants'

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011

Lloyd Chapman

Obama has backed away from his pledge to America's 27 million small businesses to stop the blatant and ongoing abuses in federal small business contracting programs.

Nico Pitney

McCain Makes No Mention Of "Middle Class" -- Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 05.25.2011

Obama spokesman Bill Burton writes: According to the transcript, mentions of "middle class" Obama: 4 McCain: ZERO* * That's a repeat from the fir...

Fed Up DNC Convention Speaker Barney Smith (Not Smith Barney): "Obama's Genuine"

Denise Dennis | Posted 05.25.2011

Denise Dennis

"My father had that job before me. I took over for him. So when I had to pack everything up and send it overseas, I was packing up equipment my father had used. We were packing up a community's way of life."

Obama Must Be Doing Something Right: He's Got The Fundamentalists of the Left and Right Upset

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Frank Schaeffer

Obama's America is not about ideological vindication. Obama is not about progressive Americans "winning" or centrists winning. Obama is about American winning.

Obama, Emily Dickinson, Hope and Me

Sherman Yellen | Posted 05.25.2011

Sherman Yellen

Those who believe that Obama (though he is too ready to compromise his principles) offers something good for America must remind the voters that McCain no longer has any principles to compromise.