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“The West’s median income, meanwhile, has barely shifted in the last half-century.”

— Edward Luce

“This one-two punch—flat incomes and rising expenses—has hit the middle class squarely in the gut. Beginning”

— Elizabeth Warren

“The most immediate is that our middle class is too weak to support the consumer spending that has historically driven our economic growth.”

— David Cay Johnston

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

— William Julius Wilson

“And the unequal accumulation of wealth by the elites continued.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“So, as middle-class families have been tumbling downhill, working-class families have been tumbling into poverty. And”

— Amy Goldstein

“The biggest threat to American power in the long run is the persistent decline in its middle class standard of living today.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis,

— Rana Dasgupta

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always…

— Susan George

“the hard-working, honest rich are the primary providers of jobs that allow us to have a middle class in this country.”

— Ben Carson

“But progress ought to feed the poor as well as entertain the middle classes, or what good is it?” Remy”

— Viola Carr

We believe that Americas prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class.

— Barack Obama