A Look At The Slow, Silent Death of America’s Middle Class

Assembly line circa 1913. Image — Public Domain on Wikimedia Commons.

The small cough that had been plaguing the middle class turned into a death rattle a few decades ago. A few minor symptoms can often turn out to be quite a serious disease if left unchecked. Like millions of uninsured Americans, we’ve largely been ignoring the symptoms of economic issues and hoping they went away. As a nation, we tend to do that often. Unfortunately, these issues aren’t…