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- The U.S. economy is killing off the middle class http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/business/economy/middle-class-shrinks-further-as-more-fall-out-instead-of-climbing-up.html 54 comments
- Democrat seeks U.S. middle-class tax breaks at expense of wealthy. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/12/us-usa-congress-taxes-iduskbn0kl15b20150112 41 comments politics
- Affluent homeless:Middle-class homelessness is a growing U.S. problem, with some living in their cars http://edition.cnn.com/2008/living/wayoflife/05/19/homeless.mom/index.html 89 comments worldnews
- Youth sports in the U.S.: Middle-class and poor kids are ditching youth sports https://www.cbsnews.com/news/uneven-playing-field-middle-class-and-poor-kids-are-ditching-youth-sports/ 9 comments sports
- Most Canadians Are Now Better Off Than Most Americans | Middle-class people in the U.S. are losing ground to their peers in other rich countries. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-29/america-s-middle-class-is-losing-ground-to-canada-s 42 comments politics
- U.S. middle-class incomes reached highest-ever level in 2016, Census Bureau says https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us-middle-class-incomes-reached-highest-ever-level-in-2016-census-bureau-says/2017/09/12/7226905e-97de-11e7-b569-3360011663b4_story.html 27 comments politics
- the u.s. middle class is being wiped out http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/the-u.s.-middle-class-is-being-wiped-out-here%27s-the-stats-to-prove-it-520657.html?tickers=%5Edji,%5Egspc,spy,mcd,wmt,xrt,dia 5 comments reddit.com
- The Murder of the U.S. Middle Class Began 40 Years Ago This Week https://theintercept.com/2021/08/06/middle-class-reagan-patco-strike/?amp%3Butm_source=The+Intercept+Newsletter 4 comments politics
- The Murder of the U.S. Middle Class Began 40 Years Ago This Week https://theintercept.com/2021/08/06/middle-class-reagan-patco-strike/ 40 comments politics
- The U.S. Middle Class Is Turning Proletarian http://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2014/02/16/the-u-s-middle-class-is-turning-proletarian/ 45 comments politics
- The U.S. Middle Class Is Turning Proletarian http://www.newgeography.com/content/004179-the-us-middle-class-is-turning-proletarian 6 comments economy
- U.S. middle class destroyed by economic bubble. http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/113086/bubble-destroyed-middle-class-marketwatch?mod=bb-budgeting 6 comments politics
- Why is this not getting more attention and discussion? Someone making over a $1,000,000 a year pays U.S. taxes around 15% of that. Dumbass me in the middle-class pays about 25% of my income. Why do the rich need tax CUTS? http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/the-little-people-pay-taxes/ 369 comments reddit.com
- Top 1% of U.S. Earners Now Hold More Wealth Than All of the Middle Class https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-08/top-1-earners-hold-more-wealth-than-the-u-s-middle-class 69 comments economy
- Top 1% of U.S. Earners Now Hold More Wealth Than All of the Middle Class https://archive.is/stqbf 136 comments economy
- Top 1% of U.S. Earners Now Hold More Wealth Than All of the Middle Class https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-08/top-1-earners-hold-more-wealth-than-the-u-s-middle-class 121 comments worldnews
- Top 1% of U.S. Earners Now Hold More Wealth Than All of the Middle Class https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-08/top-1-earners-hold-more-wealth-than-the-u-s-middle-class 77 comments economy
- Top 1% of U.S. Earners Now Hold More Wealth Than All of the Middle Class https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-08/top-1-earners-hold-more-wealth-than-the-u-s-middle-class 41 comments economy
- Flint Workers Sat Down and U.S. Middle Class Rose Up. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/04/1013261/-flint-workers-sat-down-and-us-middle-class-rose-up?via=spotlight 4 comments reddit.com
- Obama’s plan doesn’t actually help the average middle-class taxpayer: "U.S. households with average incomes -- the 20[%] taking in between $49,086 and $84,055, to be exact -- would on average see an increase of $7 in their tax bill under President Obama's proposals..." http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/30/wonkbook-obamas-plan-doesnt-actually-help-the-average-middle-class-taxpayer/ 15 comments politics
- Only 10% of U.S. Population Now ‘Middle-Class’ - Having made a point of closely monitoring mainstream economic propaganda, a number of obvious tactics are used again and again. One of the most popular of these tools of deception is to lie by “redefining” terms. http://www.bullionbullscanada.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22434:only-10-of-us-population-now-middle-class&catid=47:us-commentary&itemid=132 3 comments politics
- The Jan. 6 Insurrectionists Were Motivated by White Population Decline and the Great Replacement Theory | The people who stormed the U.S. Capitol weren’t poor, unemployed red-staters. Many were middle-class professionals motivated by the “great replacement” conspiracy theory. https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/06/trump-capitol-insurrection-january-6-insurrectionists-great-replacement-white-nationalism/ 5 comments politics
- By levying higher taxes on the wealthy, and at banks, hedge fund managers, and corporations that ship U.S. jobs overseas, Obama would raise $1.5 trillion to close the deficits over the next decade--even after cutting middle-class taxes and taxes on small businesses by $2.7 trillion. http://www.usnews.com/blogs/john-farrell/2010/02/03/obama-taxes-debt-and-stimulus-worked-trumping-gop-blather.html 12 comments politics
- Yellen Says Biden's Economic Policies Help U.S. Middle Class More Than Trump's https://www.reuters.com/world/us/yellen-says-bidens-economic-policies-help-us-middle-class-more-than-trumps-2024-01-25/ 728 comments economics
- The U.S. might sign a huge trade deal this year. Could it actually work for the middle class? http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/12/30/the-u-s-might-sign-a-huge-trade-deal-this-year-could-it-actually-work-for-the-middle-class/ 12 comments politics
- Ultra-Wealthy: One-Percenters Close to Surpassing Wealth of U.S. Middle Class https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-09/one-percenters-close-to-surpassing-wealth-of-u-s-middle-class 175 comments moderatepolitics
- Private Equity CEO Schwartzman: People have become envious and whiny. The U.S. Middle Class has taken to blaming wealthy people for its problems https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/07/moaning-moguls 37 comments politics
- MIT Economist: Income Inequality In The U.S. Is Crushing The Middle Class' Political Power (video). http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/03/23/451166/acemoglu-income-inequality-political-powe/?mobile=nc 3 comments politics
- Private Equity CEO Stephen Schwartzman: People have become envious and whiny. The U.S. Middle Class has taken to blaming wealthy people for its problems http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/07/moaning-moguls 28 comments economy
- Thanks To 'Loopholes' U.S. Corporations Pay A Lower Tax Rate Than Middle Class Families (VIDEO) http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/03/thanks-to-loopholes-u-s-corporations-pay-a-lower-tax-rate-than-middle-class-families/ 6 comments politics
- Retailer Revelations: Why America’s Struggling Middle Class Has Businesses Scared; "The decline of the U.S. middle class has corporate America and Wall Street scared. And nobody is more frightened than America’s biggest retailers." http://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/corporatemiddleout_report3.pdf 31 comments politics
- Wisconsin: The First Stop in An American Uprising? It took awhile, but Wisconsin shows that the poor and middle class of the U.S. may be ready to push back. Madison may be only the beginning. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/19 9 comments politics
- America’s wealthiest 25 percent of households own 87 percent of all U.S. wealth. How the middle class face growing income inequality in the new era of the psychopath corporatocracy. http://www.mybudget360.com/wealth-in-america-corporations-control-grow-income-inequality-top-25-percent-control-87-percent-finanical-wealth/ 9 comments politics
- "Chinese middle class will reach 550 million in three years — more than one-and-a-half times the entire U.S. population today." Every American corporation wants in on this boom https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/30/chinas-giant-middle-class-is-still-growing-and-companies-want-in.html 99 comments economy
- The national trend is clear—the middle class is losing ground as a share of the population, and its share of aggregate U.S. household income is also declining http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2016/05/11/americas-shrinking-middle-class-a-close-look-at-changes-within-metropolitan-areas/ 4 comments politics
- "It sounds harsh, but maybe people in the middle class need to decide to take a pay cut.” - CFO of a U.S. Internet company http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/the-rise-of-the-new-global-elite/8343/1/ 384 comments technology
- India's Richest Man Battles Amazon, Walmart to Work With Mom-and-Pop Shops: "Reliance Industries and the U.S. retail giants want small local stores to help them reach India's middle class" https://www.wsj.com/articles/indias-richest-man-battles-amazon-walmart-to-work-with-mom-and-pop-shops-11570885202 4 comments economy
- More Evidence That US Middle Class is Sliding Toward the Third World | As a sign of the distance between America's middle class and its national wealth, the ratio of median to mean in the U.S. is lower than in any country except Russia. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/01-1 26 comments politics
- Bernie Sanders Urges His Followers to Take Down Debbie Wasserman Schultz | "We need real change. We need U.S. senators, members of Congress, and state legislators who have the guts to take on the big-money interests whose greed is destroying the American middle class." http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/bernie-sanders-urges-his-followers-to-take-down-debbie-wasserman-schultz-8474729 367 comments politics
- U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 114th Congress - 1st Session - Amendment Rejected: To create millions of middle class jobs by investing in our nation's infrastructure paid for by raising revenue through closing loopholes in the corporate and international tax system. http://www.senate.gov/legislative/lis/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=114&session=1&vote=00078 12 comments politics