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The black middle class are angry at their exclusion from mainstream economic activity.
Households that are most likely to go solar are those that can afford solar panels, but aren’t so rich that they don’t have to worry about their electricity bill at all, says a survey of 8,000 homes.
When it debuted in 1988, Roseanne was a breath of fresh air against the conservative middle class family sitcoms then on air. Its reboot in 2018 feels just as relevant.
Children’s savings account programs are springing up around the country. A researcher says these special accounts could help pave the way to college for America’s poor.
The American middle class has been on a rocky ride during the 20th century, surging after World War II but falling since the 1980s. The Republican tax plan may be its death knell.
Energy companies routinely cut off service to vulnerable people who experience energy poverty. Here’s how to fix the problem.
Hefner’s iconic Playmates, a scholar argues, need to be understood within their historical context, when men and especially women were expected to uphold strict standards of sexual propriety.
The BBC’s dark drama reveals just how thin the veneer of middle-class respectability can be.
President Trump released details of his tax plan, which would essentially benefit the wealthiest Americans by repealing the estate tax and other changes at the expense of the middle class.
Prior to industrialisation in the 19th century, most people worked multiple jobs to piece together a living.
Research on how black people try to avoid racism in their daily lives shows that following white, mainstream standards can have mixed results.
With its recent budget changes, the government is proposing a rise in marginal tax rates across a wide band of middle incomes and a marginal tax rate cut for the top.
Oxfam’s efforts to find solutions to the world’s inequalities are welcome but its wrongful use of “human economy” and repackaging it as a concept from high up might do more harm than good.
Trump should drop his plans to cut taxes and instead look to some of our closest friends to learn what policies actually work to build and sustain a vibrant middle class.
The debate about white monopoly capital in post-apartheid South Africa is good for the country’s politics but it tends to come with bad sociology.
Busting the myths on grammar schools.
White middle-class parents get an easy time of it when it comes to parental involvement.
The collapse of New Deal-era policies gave rise to deep-seated frustrations. Addressing that anger will require mobilizing workers, business leaders and others to get wages rising again.
Four of our economic scholars weigh in on Trump’s legislative agenda, healing the divide, uncertainty and something known as the ‘presidential puzzle.’
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Part-Time Professor of Economics, The New School
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Professor of Law, The University of Texas at Austin
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Associate Professor of Business, Boston University
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Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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PhD student, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia
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Lecturer of Urban Studies, University of Pittsburgh
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Director of Education, Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research Data and Method, Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History, University of Exeter
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Professor of Public Economics, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney
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Executive Director of the Department of Leadership and Transformation, University of South Africa
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, McGill University
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Lecturer in Media and Journalism, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Visiting Researcher at the Social Debt Observatory, Catholic University of Argentina and Senior Lecturer, Middlesex University