The New Middle Class Reality
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| The vanishing middle groundMany of the jobs that are disappearing today won’t come back | A generation of failureFor a while, it looked like young workers had finally caught a break. It didn’t last long. | Making bad times goodMany are finding the recession can deliver unexpected benefits |
| Part four | Part five | Part six |
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| Pay up or get outThe middle-class life has been built on debt for over a decade. Now that bill is due. | Retiring into the unknownWith our nest eggs in ruins, the feds look at pensions for everyone | Forget the ’70sThere are no simple solutions for the plight of the middle class, but all is not lost |