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MIDDLE CLASS FINANCES
The American middle class has always been in invigorated by the “American Dream,” which includes job security (or prospects); owning a home; adequate retirement savings; and mobility (an improved life for each generation). As we confront the economic crisis middle class finances are also “under assault.” The idea of the American Dream is central to our capitalist system and is what drives our middle class to great success. What happens to middle class finances if the dream dies?
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Income Inequality Threatens America’s Basic Economic and Political Systems by Bruce Judson on October 29th, 2009 To...
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The collapse of the housing market has left a trail of economic ruin and financial insecurity for millions of working...
Defying predictions that the recession would help level the economic playing field, the huge income gap separating the...
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But right up until she hit the wall financially, Ms. McLeod was a dream customer for lenders. She juggled not one but...
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For years now, there has been growing concern about the so-called middle-class squeeze. Some people talk about...
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CD rates are headed back down again this week after two conecutive weeks of increases. Most economists believe the...
Need for real reform not half measures if the middle class is to survive.
...in the elimination of capitalism in America. Rosa Brooks will work for Undersecretary Of Defense for Policy Michele...
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To understand how the country got to this point of historic inequality, and why American middle class upward mobility...
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Simon Johnson, a professor of entrepreneurship at M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management, is the former chief economist at...
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Americans: flat or declining real wages; higher costs for the basics, such as food, health care, and education; a...
Discussion base don several articles of the state of the middle class and current policy efforts.
Individual households and businesses have a majority of their attention on how to cut expenses, but that will not...
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