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The Middle-Class Squeeze

Cost of Living, Health Care, Housing, Economic Mobility, Income Distribution

Gregg Easterbrook, Visiting Fellow (2000-08)
Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law Professor

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Save to My PortfolioWelfare to (Non-Traditional) Work?

Ron Haskins, New York Public Radio, August 03, 2007

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Save to My PortfolioFather's Day Lessons

Isabel V. Sawhill, Opportunity 08: What Matters, June 08, 2007

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Save to My PortfolioThe Rise Of the Bottom Fifth: How to Build on the Gains Of Welfare Reform

Ron Haskins, The Washington Post, May 29, 2007

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Save to My PortfolioMedical Spending, Health Insurance, and Measurement of American Poverty

Gary Burtless and Sarah Siegel, The Brookings Institution, August 01, 2001

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Save to My PortfolioPathways to the Middle Class: Ensuring Greater Upward Mobility for All Americans

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Save to My PortfolioThe Shape of the Curve: Household Income Distributions in U.S. Cities, 1979-1999

Alan Berube and Thacher Tiffany, The Brookings Institution, August 01, 2004

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Save to My PortfolioGrowing American Inequality: Sources and Remedies

Gary Burtless, The Brookings Institution, December 01, 1999

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Save to My PortfolioWinners and Losers: The Era of Inequality Continues

Deborah Reed and Sheldon Danziger, The Brookings Institution, September 01, 1999

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Save to My PortfolioWhat Role Can Health Care Reform Play in Restoring Middle Class Prosperity?

Isabel V. Sawhill, The Brookings Insitution, September 30, 2009

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Save to My PortfolioEconomic Mobility: Is the American Dream Alive and Well?

Isabel V. Sawhill and John E. Morton, Economic Mobility Project, May 01, 2007

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Save to My PortfolioCool-headed, Warm-hearted Economics

Peter R. Orszag, The Boston Globe, December 03, 2006

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Save to My PortfolioHigh Cost or High Opportunity Cost? Transportation and Family Economic Success

Margy Waller, Center on Children and Families, The Brookings Institution, November 28, 2005

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Save to My PortfolioThe Saver's Credit: Expanding Retirement Savings for Middle- and Lower-Income Americans

J. Mark Iwry, Peter R. Orszag and William G. Gale, Retirement Security Project, March 01, 2005

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Save to My PortfolioWelfare Reform: Plenty of Work Left

Margy Waller, Philadelphia Daily News, November 02, 2004

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Save to My PortfolioStylized Earnings for Birth Cohorts 1931-60

Barry P. Bosworth, Final Report: Modeling Income in the Near Term--Projections of Retirement Income Through 2020 for the 1931-60 Birth Cohorts (The Urban Institute, September 1999, chapter 8), September 01, 1999

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Save to My PortfolioStill the Land of Opportunity?

Isabel V. Sawhill, The Public Interest, March 01, 1999

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Save to My PortfolioGetting Ahead: Economic and Social Mobility in America

Daniel P. McMurrer and Isabel V. Sawhill, The Urban Institute, May 01, 1998

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