To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Monday, April 21, 2025

Observercast

What’s Killing America’s Middle Class?

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER It is said that the rich and poor will always be among us – but nowhere is it written that the middle class is a sure thing. Even in this country of grand egalitarian aspirations – where the common yeoman [neither rich nor poor] has been hailed from 1776 forward as America’s greatest strength – the U.S. actually had no broad middle class until one was created in the 1930s and ’40s. […]

Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower
Populist author, public speaker and radio commentator Jim Hightower writes "The Hightower Lowdown," a monthly newsletter chronicling the ongoing fights by America's ordinary people against rule by plutocratic elites. Sign up at JimHightower.substack.com.