New Orleans There were a couple of random headlines and a paragraph or two on the wire services, but the recent report, “Middle Class Squeeze,” by the DC-based progressive think tank, Center for American Progress, is actually pretty startling on a closer look. Here’s the bottom line. Defining the middle class as those individuals and …
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Middle Class Movement Takes Needs than Wishing and Hoping in India
Mumbai I’ve been coming to India regularly for over a decade now, several times per year for many years and annually more recently. There have been visible changes, tall apartment blocks growing like weeds, highways under endless construction finally completed, more people with more money more visible, but all of this in a death grip …
Short Courses from Top Economists on Financial Collapse & Inequality
New Orleans How about “economics for idiots” for all of us out there who might have trouble remembering what we have learned from the Great Recession as well as the Bush “build the rich” program of recent years? Thanks to the Times we have this today in easy to access fashion. Here’s Alan …