On AlterNet: middle class
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "middle class"
Susan Kuchinskas, Miller-McCune.com. October 22, 2009.
A financial stimulus for the recession-battered middle class: pot farming.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. October 14, 2009.
In her final column, Cocco writes that we face "hard political tasks. But being pushed further down is harder, still. Because no one knows where the new bottom lies."
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. September 22, 2009.
The Baucus proposal includes a tax intended to dupe the public into thinking it soaks the rich. In truth, it would stick it to millions in the middle class.
mcjoan, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. September 16, 2009.
Hey Blue Dogs, you really want to jump in on this middle class tax increase known as the Baucus bill?
Barbara Ehrenreich, Dedrick Muhammad, Barbaraehrenreich.com. August 10, 2009.
40 percent of African Americans will have experienced unemployment or underemployment by 2010 and child poverty will increase to slightly over half.
Joe Bageant, JoeBageant.com. July 18, 2009.
"We're starting to hear a little discussion about the white underclass... Mainly because so many middle class folks are terrified of falling into it."
Drum Major InstituteFebruary 25, 2009.
An issue-by-issue analysis of Obama’s budget address to Congress and how it will help current aspiring middle-class Americans.
Chuck Collins, Sam Pizzigati, Christian Science Monitor. February 24, 2009.
They're paying far less of their incomes in taxes than average Americans.
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. December 21, 2008.
This task force is "designed to do the one thing we use as a yardstick of economic success of our administration, is the middle class growing?"
Matt Stoller, Open Left AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. December 4, 2008.
People that have money would prefer that they remain on top, and will oppose attempts to restart spending from a broad base.
Ryan Powers, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. September 23, 2008.
As the saying goes, with friends like these ...
Jason Linkins, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. September 22, 2008.
"Decisions by the Secretary ... are non-reviewable ... and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency."
Kathy G, The G-Spot AlterNet: PEEK. September 20, 2008.
Forget Wall Street: what we need is massive debt relief for individual households.
Lee Sustar, CounterPunch. September 17, 2008.
Prosperity is becoming more difficult to attain.
Vanessa Richmond, The Tyee. September 6, 2008.
Many parents are consumed by an ever-increasing list of things they should be but aren't buying for their kids.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. August 26, 2008.
Money is on the mind of voters as they see their paychecks shrink from inflation, their jobs threatened and their middle-class dreams diminished.
Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Drum Major Institute AlterNet: Video. August 21, 2008.
Do you know what your member of Congress did today?
Amy Traub, Drum Major Institute AlterNet: PEEK. August 19, 2008.
A new poll from the Drum Major Institute shows that most middle class Americans agree with progressive platforms.
Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America's Future. August 18, 2008.
The case keeps getting stronger for a new, bold change in economic policy explicitly designed to help working-class families regain their footing.
ZP Heller, Meet the Bloggers AlterNet: Video. August 17, 2008.
From "Meet the Bloggers" dedicated to the economic crisis.
Zephyr Teachout, The Nation. May 23, 2008.
Apparently, in the United States, we don't have an upper class; we have elites -- a complimentary term that obscures true differences in opportunity.
David Neiwert, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. May 22, 2008.
In California, homeless middle-class women are banding together and sleeping in their cars in parking lots.
Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise AlterNet: PEEK. May 7, 2008.
The New York Times columnist is completely out of touch with the reality of ordinary Americans.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. April 30, 2008.
In the wake of the housing crash and rising food and energy prices, Americans are pawning their clothes, furniture and more.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. April 16, 2008.
It's becoming clearer that there are two economies -- one for the very rich and another for the rest of us.
