BY FROMA HARROP This was the Year of the Middle Class – as in, its falling incomes, loss of job security and anger. The global economic forces fueling the decline, such as foreign competition and computers, have been well reported. But what about cultural factors? Is the middle class going down partly because it stopped acting middle class? For those who remember the American middle’s golden era of 40 years ago – or see it […]

Middle Class Aided Its Own Decline
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