Social Media Ideas for The Destruction Of The Middle Class

The End of The Middle Class and Birth of the K-Shaped Economy: Working Class vs. Upper Class

A steady job used to be enough for you to buy a house, raise a family, and retire with something left over. That promise has quietly broken down over the past few decades. In its p...

From Cereal Aisles to Property Portfolios: Understanding the Hollowing Out of Australia’s Middle Class

If you’ve wandered down the cereal aisle recently, you might have noticed something peculiar. Between the giant, value-packed boxes of Home Brand Cereals and the small, premium gou...

Rebutting myths about shrinking middle class

Scott Winship counters a popular misconception about the American middle class. It’s a common refrain: The middle class is hollowing out; Americans overall are increasingly falling...

The K-Shaped Economy: Why The Middle Class Moved Up.

The K-shaped economy has become shorthand for a tidy story. The rich pull away while everyone else falls behind. It fits the mood, and it makes for a sharp headline. The problem is...

US middle class keeps shrinking as wealthy pull further ahead, Equifax data show

Wealth gap widens further as savings plunge and credit card balances hit record highs

The collapse begins

We got an email today from our research center director informing us that three of our programmer/analysts have been laid off because of declining grant funding. I don't know the e...

The Politics of the Downwardly Mobile Professional Class

The debate over whether Graham Platner is “working class” comes at a time when more and more people are at risk of falling into it.

The Gating of the American Dream

Social mobility in America is fundamentally broken, not because we have hollowed out the middle class but because we’ve hollowed out places, argues the political scientist Ian Brem...

Are People Just “Lower-Value Human Capital”?

In case you did not get the memo, human capital is now officially inferior.

Vermont’s governing class is destroying the state it claims to serve

Working Vermonters are paying for an ideology the ruling class will never have to live with. Read the story on VTDigger here: Vermont’s governing class is destroying the state it...

Mitchell A. Sobieski: The forgotten middle

How America abandoned cities like Milwaukee that built the working middle class

‘Pas als de middenklasse pijn voelt, kan er echte verandering komen’

The Looming Shadow of the “Useless Class”

The Looming Shadow of the “Useless Class”Patti JohnsonHarari’s Warning: A New “Useless Class” EmergesIn influential circles tied to global institutions, a chilling phrase has enter...

AWOL in the Class War

Americans realize they've lost power and income to the very rich. Too many Democrats, even too many unions, have yet to go to war for them.

5 Things Upper-Class Families Can Still Buy That Working-Class Families Can’t Afford Anymore

The old formula made sense for a long time. Work hard, keep your nose clean, and a decent life would follow, with a house, decent medical care, and a real shot at sending your kids...

The Left's Destruction of America's Sacred Institutions

The intense anger, threats of violence, and actual violence cascading through America's progressives over court decisions, legislation, and executive orders that don't go their way...

More Than 80% Of Young Adults Believe That The Economy Is “Bad” Or “Terrible” And We Are Seeing The Consequences All Ove...

Decades of economic decline have brought this country to a breaking point. The vast majority of the population is barely scraping by from month to month as prices continue to rise,...

What Truly Separates The Upper Class From The Working Class

Most people assume the difference between the upper and working classes is a matter of income. It goes far deeper than a paycheck. The real separation isn’t how much money each gro...

The Slow Death of the Prestige Career

White-collar work is at risk across the board, including at elite consulting firms that used to be a pathway to the 1%

The Looming Shadow of the “Useless Class”

Harari’s Warning: A New “Useless Class” Emerges In influential circles tied to global institutions, a chilling phrase has entered the conversation: the rise of a “useless class.” H...

The Real Difference Between the Working Class, the Middle Class, and the Upper Class

Most people define social class by income. That framing misses the deeper truth. The real difference between the working class, the middle class, and the upper class comes down to...

10 Surprising Ways Income Makes the Upper Class Richer and the Working Class Poorer

The idea is seductive and simple: earn more, keep more, build more. Work your way up, and the math takes care of itself. But that is not how the economic system actually works, and...

What Liberals Get Wrong About the Middle Class

The middle class is larger than you think, and growing.

AI Will Destabilize Jobs, the Middle Class and the Welfare State Unless We Act in Time

NEW YORK, June 26 (IPS) - Artificial intelligence (AI) promises remarkable gains in productivity, science, medicine and education. But it is also poised to wipe out millions of jo...