middle class

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/29/2020
  

  The Life in "The Simpsons" Is No Longer Attainable

  In the 1990s, "The Simpsons" drew humor by putting bizarre dysfunction in the context of middle class suburban banality. Today it's the idea of homeownership paid for by a stable single income that seems outlandish.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/6/2020
  

  The Real Reason the American Economy Boomed After World War II

  by Jim Tankersley

  Citing recent economic research, the author argues that fighting employment discrimination and ending the idea that white men have a privileged claim on good jobs will be a potent engine for economic growth if and when America recovers from the pandemic. 

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• 7/12/2020
  

  Re-stabilizing the Middle Class and the Poor: Lessons from the 1930s

  by David Stebenne

  For a long time it seemed as though the 1930s era of high unemployment was a kind of “great exception” in American history, but now it has appeared again, suddenly and unexpectedly, just as it did in the early 1930s. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  1/22/20
  

  The Myth of Middle-Class Liberalism

  by David Motadel

  The bourgeois are supposed to ensure open, democratic societies. In fact, they rarely have.

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• 10-28-17
  

  How Maligning Others Made the Middle Class

  by Robert Wuthnow

  It’s always been hard to say what’s middle class, so this is what people have done instead.

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• 12-2-13
  

  The Battle for Ohio's Middle Class

  by John T. McNay

  Labor's 2011 victory in Ohio offers a blueprint for the future.