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Middle Class

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Income inequality

The Truth About Income Inequality

Should we be worried about the wealth amassed by the so-called 1 percent?

David R. Henderson | 1.25.2020 6:00 AM

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Economist Russ Roberts Isn't Worried About the Middle Class

John Osterhoudt | 1.21.2020 6:00 AM

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Economics

Why the Middle Class is Better Off Than You Think

The consensus view that the American middle class "is dead, dying, hollowed out" is based on an "incomplete reading of the data," says economist Russ Roberts.

John Osterhoudt | 10.31.2019 12:25 PM

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Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren's Plans Don't Add Up

The Warren worldview of ill-founded economic pessimism is both bloodless and moralizing.

Peter Suderman | 9.10.2019 6:00 AM

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Income mobility

Americans Are Moving Up

Mark Perry | 8.18.2019 6:00 AM

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Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders Is Right That the 'Working Class' Is Shrinking. He's Wrong To Suggest That's a Bad Thing.

By nearly every measure, Americans are getting richer and richer. This should be cause for celebration, not concern.

Nick Gillespie | 8.14.2019 2:15 PM

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Donald Trump

Trump's Scrapping of TPP Will Make America Poor Again

American consumers, exporters and manufacturing will get screwed

Shikha Dalmia | 1.23.2017 4:15 PM

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How Globalization Saved the American Middle Class

Conservatives recommending nationalism are dangerously wrong.

Shikha Dalmia | 8.9.2016 12:00 PM

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Protectionism

China Trade Isn't Killing America's Working Class

Government handouts maybe more responsible.

Shikha Dalmia | 3.25.2016 10:00 AM

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China

China Bashing Is a Bipartisan Sport and It's Back With a Vengeance

American working class is spurning jobs, but somehow that's the fault of trade liberalization

Shikha Dalmia | 3.22.2016 1:17 PM

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Taxes

How Risk-Taking by the Wealthy Helps the Middle Class

Aim higher with tax reform to help average Americans.

John Tamny | 3.5.2016 10:00 AM

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The Middle Class Is Shrinking! Because They're Getting Rich!

Success is seen as a disaster when you care more about income inequality than mobility.

Scott Shackford | 12.10.2015 11:20 AM

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Donald Trump

Trump's Radical Isolationism and the Crisis of White Middle-Class America

He's succeeding because he has both a scapegoat and a solution for hurting Americans

Shikha Dalmia | 11.5.2015 3:39 PM

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Hillary Clinton

The Bogus Concerns Behind Hillary Clinton's TPP Switcheroo

She'll even sell out her husband's trade legacy to get elected.

Shikha Dalmia | 10.20.2015 12:00 PM

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Shikha Dalmia Faces Off with Charlie LeDuff and David Madland on What's Ailing the American Middle Class on Michael Moynihan's VICE Show

It ain't trade and automation

Reason Staff | 7.23.2015 9:17 AM

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