Difficulty of Defining a Working-Class Economic Agenda

Many good people across the political spectrum are earnestly trying to create a coherent, comprehensible, and politically ...
The American Conservative

Defining Class Warfare Down

Clive Crook is afraid of the proles. Acknowledging arguments that extreme income inequality is socially and economically unsalutary (reviewed in National Journal by Jonathan Rauch), Crook cautions ...
Yahoo

Defining protected classes: Same-sex marriage and judicial scrutiny

This spring, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear two cases that touch on questions of the constitutionality of same-sex marriage. Source: Fibonacci Blue (Flickr). In U.S. v. Windsor, with arguments ...
NPR

The Difficulty Of Defining What 'Middle Class' Is

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Sherry Linkon, co-director of the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University, about the difficulty of defining what "middle class" is today. We asked ...
Chicago Tribune

RACE: MORE DEFINING THAN CLASS STATUS

It is still painful to remember the day when I discovered how fragile my family’s lower middle-class existence was. In one of the innumerable, thoughtless acts of my youth, I swiped 35 cents off my ...
LancasterOnline

Defining the middle class

Who makes up the middle class? Surveys suggest that half to 90 percent of Americans consider themselves members of the economic middle class. These respondents may have annual gross earnings of ...