How to Save the Middle Class from Extinction

By Paul Krugman, AlterNet. Posted March 9, 2007.

Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman explains in simple terms how the American economy went from having the world's most dynamic middle class to being on the verge of a rich-poor state in only 30 years.

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