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Second, there is a shrinking middle class in which ordinary people are, in most instances, working longer hours for lower wages and benefits. Third, an increasing number of Americans are living in abject poverty -- going hungry and sleeping out on the streets.
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www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/09/04_sanders.html
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"Middle Class" was, until recently, a description that most Americans felt described them. We all felt we were middle class if we had a steady income, a decent home, and a shot at an even better life. But today, as Thom Hartmann helps us understand, the middle class reality is slipping away.
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www.buzzflash.com/articles/interviews/034
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In our Aug. 3 article, "Kerry's Dubious Economics," we said Kerry based his claim that "our great middle class is shrinking" on some pretty stale numbers. We said his statement "may well be untrue" because it was based on 2002 figures and didn't account for recent economic growth.
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The "shrinking" middle class, under either definition, did not move equally into the two tails of the distribution. Instead, the vast majority of middle mass movement was to the right (higher real incomes) rather than to the left (lower real incomes).
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www.frbsf.org/econrsrch/wklyltr/el97-07.html
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And, ironically enough, today's NY Times and LA Times are reporting on the ever-shrinking middle class in large cities. ... And the Brookings Institution released a report late last month which looked at the shrinking middle class over the thirty year period covering 1970 - 2000. The Wayne State University study...
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www.dailykos.com/story/2006/7/23/123025/562
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MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW March 1985 9 Is The Middle Class Shrinking? that are considered to have many high and low income earners wiih relatively few in the middle. ... MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW March 1985 " Is The Middle Class Shrinking? tional groups of workers . The data indicate the following : " Workers who typically have...
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1 See, for example, Bob Kuttner, "The Declining Middle." The Atlantic Monthly, July 1983, pp. 60-72; Lucy S, Gordon, Are Middle Level Jobs Disappearing? (Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO, 1983); Lester Thurow, "The Disappearance of the Middle Class," The New York Times, Feb. 5, 1984, p. F3;
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A conference on the future of New York City's shrinking middle class on Monday featured clashes among several politicians who are considering running for mayor in 2009. Diane Cardwell reports today that Representative Anthony D. Weiner, who represents parts of Queens and Brooklyn, called for a tax increase on New Yorkers ...
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empirezone.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/the-shrinking-middle-class/
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Let me repeat that: over 30% of US households in 2006 earned above $75K compared to under 20% in 1980. Over the same period, the percentage of US households earning under $35K fell from 42.8% to 36.7%. Fewer households are poor, fewer are middle class, and a hunk more are above $75K. (And in case you were...
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freemarketmojo.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/the-middle-clas...
freemarketmojo.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/the-middle-class-is-shrinking-because-the-upper-class-is-growing/
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