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Residential solar is becoming a financial decision, not an environmental one. 
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Two recent articles describe America’s entitled (and doomed) upper middle class: the top 5% of households with incomes above $206,500…
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“ A young man about to start his career once opined to me that perhaps the strong and broad middle class that grew post-World War II was a historical accident, a mere blip never to be repeated. He...
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A perspective that was once characterized by comfort and optimism has increasingly been overlaid with stress and anxiety.
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The former secretary of labor debunks one of the longest running myths about higher education
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The former secretary of labor explains why agreements like the Trans Pacific Partnership only make the rich richer
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The former secretary of labor reflects on the single biggest threat to the continued health of the U.S. economy
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Marc Saxer looks at the role of the middle classes in the vertigo of change. What unites global protest and what sets them apart?
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A new book by French economist Thomas Piketty on "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" has recently caused a major stir on the opinion pages of newspapers and magazines. Piketty has resurrected from the ash heap of history Karl Marx's claim that capitalism inescapably leads to a worsening unequal distribution of wealth with dangerous consequences for human society.
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Downward mobility is catching on fast with America’s new economic underdogs — the emerging middle-class minority.
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There is a big debate happening in the on-demand economy. W2 vs 1099. It’s the wrong framework. Neither are the right long term answer. We need a new classification.
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When people say Americans are dividing along class lines, they usually mean it as a metaphor. But it's also true in a literal sense. When it comes to where we live, the rich, poor, and shrinking middle class have been moving further apart.
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Photo credit: DonkeyHotey / Foter / CC BY. Article cross-posted from On the Commons. Written by Peter Barnes.
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The large, thriving middle class, which America used to have, didn't just arise out of the blue--it was created using an economic tool that was essentially socialistic.
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Is it time for us to rethink how we perceive the global middle class? Currently, more than half of the world's middle class population can be found in the Western world.
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Progressive taxation, when done correctly, pushes wages down to working people and reduces the incentives for the very rich to pillage their companies or rip off their workers. After all, why take another billion when 91 percent of it just going to be paid in taxes?
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