The Alleged Decline of America’s Middle Class

At least since the 1980s, we've heard journalists and academics lamenting the decline of the middle class and the alleged problems of supposed economic inequality in the United States. That's been especially true since the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008. So what's really going on? What are the implications and what does all this mean for you? We'll explain.

An article in The Huffington Post¹ recently pointed out that the top one percent of Americans — in financial terms — enjoye.....