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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...

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11/21/11 Grumbles on the upper left Source: Politico The liberal elite's disenchantment with Barack Obama's presidency ebbs and flows, but two of its more reliable spokespeople have, in recent days, been notably down on the president.
07/13/11 Nolan Announces Candidacy for 8th District Congress Source: Business Wire Declaring that “America is at a tipping point, and the middle class is under assault by the Republican Party, big corporations and powerful special interests,” former Minnesota Democratic Congressman Rick Nolan formally entered the 8 th District Congressional race today.
04/15/11 Public employee fight comes to Congress Source: International Business Times (Australia) "My point is: if you want to go after collective bargaining, and the fact that it helped build this country and that it helped build the middle class that is under assault in this recession, just come out and say it," he said.
03/13/11 CNN's Pitiful Coverage of the Protests in Wisconsin Source: Crooks and Liars The fact the CNN along with our other cable news networks decided to largely ignore the fact that we had massive protests going on in Wisconsin this weekend, or that when they finally devoted a few minutes to it as CNN did here in between hours upon hours of chasing the ambulance of the day which is the earthquake in Japan, they didn't let the public know just how large the crowds were there.
02/18/11 CSEA: Wisconsin is Ground Zero Source: Capitol Confidential The 150 or so public (with a smattering of private sector) union employees that came to a solidarity demonstration a few minutes ago at CSEA headquarters in Albany may pale in comparison to the thousands who have occupied the Wisconsin state capitol this week, but labor activists said they were standing behind their brethren in the Badger State.