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Who Exactly Counts as Middle Class?

(Feb. 28) -- Vice President Joe Biden knows what he wants to do to help the middle class, and on Friday he laid out a series of proposals to help them. But does he -- or anyone -- know what middle class is? Is it Americans earning less than $250,000 -- who President Obama promised to protect from tax increases? Is it...

Opinion: The Middle Class Still Has It Pretty Good

(Feb. 3) -- In the run-up to the release of his new budget, President Barack Obama painted a dire picture of the middle class. It has, he said, "been under assault for a long time ... barely able to stay afloat despite working harder and harder for less, [with health care] premiums that were doubling, tuition fees that...

For Washington, It's All About the Economy

(Jan. 25) – Once again, it is all about the economy. That political truth has again emerged as the most politically resonant theme in Washington, from the Obama White House crafting its first State of the Union address to a nominally nonpartisan Federal Reserve under fire from both ends of the political spectrum to...

Background on MiddleClass

The middle class is a class of people in the middle of a societal hierarchy. In Weberian socio-economic terms, the middle class is the broad group of people in contemporary society who fall socio-economically between the working class and upper class.

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