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Who Is The Middle Class?

When democratic leaders in congress criticized President Bush’s tax cut proposal, they argued that the tax cuts were deeply unfair to the middle class. But who is the middle class?
If you went by opinion polls, just about everybody. In “Who Is The Middle Class?,” WKSU’s Vincent Duffy tries to define the middle class in America…
Dr. Kathy Wilson
Dr. Kathy Wilson is an economist at Kent State University…
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Dr. John Russo
Dr. John Russo is the Director of the Center for Working Class Studies at Youngstown State University…
  • Listen to the interview with Dr. John Russo
Related Links
The Center for Working Class Studies web site — The CWCS is an interdisciplinary research and teaching center at Youngstown State University devoted to the study of working-class life and culture.

UWEC.edu — Graphs and charts showing U.S. income distribution patterns at the University of Wisconsin web site.

Demographics.com — “Are You Middle Class?,” an article about the middle class at the American Demographics web site.
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