On AlterNet: middle class squeeze

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Dispatches from the Workplace: the Big Squeeze

Kim Bobo, Religion Dispatches. June 9, 2008.

Steven Greenhouse's new book charts the growing economic pain faced by the middle class.

The Mad, Mad Middle Class

Isaiah J. Poole, TomPaine.com. February 24, 2008.

Large numbers of middle-class people are mad, really mad, about the damage Bush-league conservatism has done to the country.

Working Americans Respond to Bush's Last SOTU

AlterNetJanuary 29, 2008.

A group of ordinary people fill in what the pundits leave out.

Study: Big Box Living Wage Ordinances Benefit Workers Without Hurting Shoppers

Andrea Buffa, Kathleen Maclay, AlterNet. December 6, 2007.

Contrary to the cries of Big Business's Chicken Littles, public interest regulations that help workers get out from under the "Wal-Mart Model" of working in poverty don't hit consumers hard.