Linky Friday: The Beginning of the Middle of the End of the Beginning
Linky Friday tries to steer you straight to end a week full of beginnings, endings, and everything in the middle. Or is it starting the weekend? Either way.
Tagged: middle class
Inequality is more than a just an ideological cudgel
Liberals disagree with Adolph Reed Jr.’s Harper’s essay less than they think.
Public Pre-K and Supporting Working Parents
Can early childhood programs support working parents while also benefitting their kids?
A good idea packaged wrong
President Obama is looking to strike another deal, using the corporate tax rate as a bargaining chip, but is this really the way to get economic growth?
Driving Blind: Fake Geeks and a Dying Middle Class
And we’re back. Friday afternoon I got sidetracked trying to buy a car, but that fell through because the one I was looking at had already been sold. That’s what happens when you take...
Noah Smith Trolls Working Class
Noah Smith has a plan for closing the “wealth gap.” The solution? Thrift!
Sounds of the City
Right now as I start this post, out on the street, the same somebody who comes by once a week is creating the clink-clink noise of bottles being sorted out of the neighborhood recycle...
Economic Benefits of Marriage
In 2011 Pew Charitable Trusts published an interesting study showing just who is falling out of the middle class. – Compared with married women, women who are divorced, widowed or separated are between 31 and...
Thermomixed Up, Part 8: The Rich Buddha
(Previously, Parts 1, 2, 3 , 4, 5, 6 and 7) In the comment section of a previous post, on the subject of living one’s convictions, I suggested that former Gentleman Freddie deBoer did not possess a complete set of male...
The Death and Life of the Great American Middle Class
I don’t agree with Andrew Sullivan on the issue of public sector unions at all but at least this post is a good deal more measured than many of his recent efforts. It’s also revealing...
