““I’m happy that the GDP is up and unemployment is down. Yay! But I’m not drinking champagne. In fact, I’m hitting alarm buttons everywhere I can. Our once-solid middle class is in mortal danger—in danger and running out of time. Every one of those happy numbers is used by nearly every economic reporter and pundit and politician, but those numbers paper over the fact that America’s middle class is literally disappearing. NO””
![“Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class.” quote by Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/13c/charles-dickens-34_age_though-we-are-perpetually-bragging-of-it_2212660.jpg)
![“I can remember riding in the car with [my daughter] Amelia, when she was very small, and we'd talk about money the same way we'd talk about sparkly shoes or what had happened at school.” quote by Elizabeth Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e72/elizabeth-warren-879_amelia_i-can-remember-riding-in-the-car-with-my_32573.jpg)
