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The U.S. Census shows 27.6 percent of black Americans live in poverty, a total of more than 10 million people. Social programs like food stamps have helped. But concern over jobs and the black middle class is running high.
(AJC) — If the American middle class once offered dependable shelter, that haven now is shaky, leaky and uncertain. Experts disagree on why — and what happens next. But the old assumptions — that being middle class would mean a decent paycheck, job security, hope for owning a home, the far-off glow of a comfortable retirement […]
(CNN Money) — The financial crisis that destroyed some of the world’s biggest banks and sent others to the brink of failure have changed Americans’ idea of lending and borrowing. While most still seem to have no problems storing their money at banks small and large, a few trends indicate that everyone from consumers to […]
(Huffington Post) — The American dream may in fact be slipping away. The white picket fence, Social Security, sending your children to college — what was once an attainable reality has become increasingly hard to achieve. The harsh reality for today’s middle class is that many of them go to work just to get by. Arianna […]
(New York Times) —Nancy Folbre is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It’s not that all middle-class jobs have gone missing. It’s just that their growth is sagging compared with that of other jobs. No giant sucking sound, just the gentle hissing of an inner tube losing air, threatening a flat tire that […]