Candidates Stop Saying ‘Middle Class’
Instead of new rhetoric about the middle class, Presidential candidates should invent policies to save it.
Middle Class Squeeze
Obama, Letterman, and the ‘I’ Word
If President Obama really wants upward mobility for poor people, then he should support downward mobility at the top. By Salvatore Babones [caption id="attachment_8944" align="alignright" width="300"] On the Late Show...
Our Grand Fortunes, Our Grand Waste
Good things trickle down from the top, cheerleaders for privilege insist, when wealth concentrates. In real life, suggests economist Robert Frank, inequality makes things worse even for its ostensible beneficiaries.
Poverty or Inequality: Does It Matter?
Does it really matter whether we say “inequality,” “poverty,” or something else? By Peter Marcuse [caption id="attachment_8046" align="alignright" width="290"] If inequality rather than poverty is the focus, we are required to focus...