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- A Brief History of Welfare for Middle-Class Americans http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/a-brief-history-of-welfare-for-middle-class-americans/68991/ 24 comments
- The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/my-secret-shame/476415/ 16 comments economy
- Study profiles new American heroin addicts: Predominantly white, middle-class, suburban http://www.livescience.com/45969-who-uses-heroin.html 5 comments science
- Many Middle-Class Americans Are Living Paycheck to Paycheck http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/my-secret-shame/476415/ 2 comments indepthstories
- Middle-class families getting priced out of new American cars https://www.cbsnews.com/video/middle-class-families-getting-priced-out-of-new-american-cars/ 212 comments economy
- Republicans move to appeal to middle-class and working Americans by claiming a "poverty-fighting mantle" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/us/politics/republicans-move-to-reclaim-poverty-fighting-mantle.html?smid=fb-nytimes&wt.z_sma=po_rmt_20140108&bicmp=ad&bicmlukp=wt.mc_id&bicmst=1388552400000&bicmet=1420088400000 6 comments politics
- The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency. I’m one of them. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/my-secret-shame/476415/ 45 comments politics
- Trump's trade war could cost every middle-class American family $453 and could eliminate 292,000 US jobs https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-trade-war-china-steel-tariffs-could-cost-us-families-jobs-2018-12 567 comments politics
- The State of the American Middle Class https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2024/05/31/the-state-of-the-american-middle-class/ 74 comments economics
- 95% of Americans say they are middle class http://bigstory.ap.org/article/look-some-ways-define-middle-class 13 comments politics
- National Strike for the American Middle and Working Classes! « National Strike Oct 29th http://nationalstrike.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/national-strike-oct29/#comments 6 comments reddit.com
- Richest 1% of Americans Close to Surpassing Wealth of Middle Class https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-09/one-percenters-close-to-surpassing-wealth-of-u-s-middle-class 3 comments politics
- 40% of the American middle class face poverty in retirement https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/12/40percent-of-american-middle-class-face-poverty-in-retirement-study-says.html 454 comments politics
- It Just Got a Lot Harder for Americans to Have Their Day in Court By rewriting the rules for civil complaints, the Supreme Court denied access to poor and middle-class people—and handed a big gift to corporate interests http://www.thenation.com/article/it-just-got-a-lot-harder-for-americans-to-have-their-day-in-court/ 26 comments politics
- Why Americans All Believe They Are 'Middle Class' - "A taxonomy of how we talk about class and wealth in the United States today" http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/why-americans-all-believe-they-are-middle-class/278240/?utm_source=sffb 9 comments politics
- Middle class Americans: Not so wealthy by global standards http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/11/news/economy/middle-class-wealth/index.html?iid=hp_highlight 3 comments economy
- The American Middle Class Is Collapsing http://www.sanders.senate.gov/news/record.cfm?id=295812 7 comments business
- How Reagan Wrecked The American Middle Class, And Came Out Smelling Like A Rose http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/02/09/happy-birthday-ronald-reagan-how-he-wrecked-the-american-middle-class-and-came-out-smelling-like-a-rose/ 86 comments politics
- Arguing Against " How the American Middle Class Is Getting Screwed" http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0104/p09s02-coop.html 2 comments reddit.com
- The Betrayal of the American Dream -- A Once Vibrant Middle Class Is Now on the Brink | Alternet http://www.alternet.org/economy/betrayal-american-dream-once-vibrant-middle-class-now-brink 5 comments politics
- Outcasts: Tonight Tens Of Thousands Of Formerly Middle Class Americans Will Be Sleeping In Their Cars, In Tent Cities Or On The Streets http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/outcasts-tonight-tens-of-thousands-of-formerly-middle-class-americans-will-be-sleeping-in-their-cars-in-tent-cities-or-on-the-streets 3 comments reddit.com
- American society is breaking apart. Millions of people have lost their jobs and fallen into poverty. Among them, for the first time, are many middle-class families. Meet Pam Brown from New York, whose life changed overnight. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,728368,00.html 3 comments politics
- Middle Class Destroyed: 50% Of All American Workers Make Less Than $30,533 A Year https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-22/middle-class-destroyed-50-all-american-workers-make-less-30533-year 87 comments economy
- Extend overtime pay to millions of middle class Americans by raising the threshold and eliminating exemptions https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/extend-overtime-pay-millions-middle-class-americans-raising-threshold-and-eliminating-exemptions/zwmxk2g1 3 comments economy
- Wall Street Consultants Complain: STOCK Act Transparency Proposal Will “Hurt Middle Class Americans” http://www.republicreport.org/2012/wall-street-disclosure-whine/ 10 comments politics
- "More bluntly put – middle class Americans feel less solidarity with the very poor because the very poor are more likely to be black." http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2011/06/02/how-inequality-affects-redistributive-politics/ 17 comments politics
- African American lives with middle class black families to study low test scores—is vilified for what he finds. http://www.eastbayexpress.com/news/rich__black__flunking/content?oid=285317 111 comments reddit.com
- "The middle class that President Obama identified in his State of the Union speech last week as the foundation of the American economy has been shrinking for almost half a century." http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/business/economy/middle-class-shrinks-further-as-more-fall-out-instead-of-climbing-up.html?_r=1 15 comments economy
- 15 striking findings from 2015 - Just 19% of Americans trust the federal government, the middle class is shrinking, a rise in desire for racial equality measures, and more... http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/12/22/15-striking-findings-from-2015/ 5 comments politics
- Elizabeth Warren: 8 ways to restore the middle class; "Ronald Reagan's trickle down economic theory...has failed the middle class, she told the crowd. Since 1980, 90% of Americans saw zero income growth." http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/07/news/economy/elizabeth-warren-middle-class/index.html 671 comments politics
- “It’s true the top 1% and top .1% have galloped away more quickly, but ignoring the role of the upper middle class gets in the way of an honest conversation about what’s happening with American inequality.” http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/06/21/not-just-the-1-the-upper-middle-class-is-larger-and-richer-than-ever/?mod=e2fb 9 comments politics
- The Middle Class in America has just become a minority: For the first time in over 50 years low-income and high-income Americans outnumber the middle class. http://www.mybudget360.com/middle-class-minority-income-earned-income-upper-income-low-income/ 19 comments economy
- "We are talking about people who are already fantastically rich. And who, despite this, are absolutely hell-bent on getting richer, even if that means depriving hundreds of millions of people in the American middle class of their middle classness. Are they not essentially sociopathic?" http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/09/05-0 1112 comments politics
- Middle school kid draws an American flag in art class. Teacher deems it "offensive." Classmate draws picture of Obama; teacher lavishes praise. (with photo of offending flag picture.) http://www.ksbw.com/news/23512008/detail.html?treets=mty&tid=26510299719813&tml=mty_12pm&tmi=mty_12pm_1_02000105112010&ts=h 12 comments reddit.com
- Howard Dean: I think we ought to go over the cliff. It will take 7 ½ trillion dollars out of our deficit. Any politician who tells the American people there aren't going to be any sacrifices for everybody is a liar and I do not want the sacrifices to be on the backs of the middle class. http://bigthink.com/ideas/47155 17 comments politics
- "Did you notice that corn prices vaulted ahead 15% on Friday? If you are a middle class or poor American, you will notice soon when these price increases filter through the food chain." blame the fed and "quantitative easing" http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/corn-quantitative-easing-and-coming-storm 4 comments reddit.com
- Guess What's Destroying the Middle Class? - there is a growing body of research showing that globalization -- and, in particular, the rise of China -- has been the biggest factor hollowing out the American middle class. http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-25/what-s-destroying-middle-class-wages-china 6 comments politics
- Kansas Bleeds the Middle Class - Are we on our way to becoming a low-wage nation? Recent trends in suburban poverty indicate that Americans are facing an uphill battle to secure well-paying jobs. http://prospect.org/article/kansas-bleeds-middle-class 68 comments politics
- The decline of the American middle class began around the mid- to late-1980s, at the same time as the negative long-run changes in modern American life — increased income and wealth inequality, lower social mobility — began to intensify https://www.pairagraph.com/dialogue/320a8c4b776b4214a24f7633e9b67795?80 170 comments economy
- The 2012 elections will be a test as to whether we elect leaders who will deepen the economic crisis on the backs of the poor and middle class, or whether we choose people who care about civil liberties and strengthening economic conditions for the majority of Americans http://www.aclu.org/blog/organization-news-and-highlights/debt-ceiling-civil-liberties-issue 120 comments politics