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President Obama’s Middle Class: the Rhetoric and the Reality

February 18, 2013 by Maynard Seider Leave a Comment

It should come as no surprise that President Obama focused on the “middle class” in his State of the Union speech. He mentioned that term six times, even calling it “our generation’s task…to reignite the true engine of America’s economic growth – a rising, thriving middle class.” What the president didn’t mention was the critical […]

Filed Under: Classism in the Economy, Labor movement, Politics and Class Tagged With: deficit, low-wage jobs, Minimum wage, unions

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