Words and numbers.

in words •  10 months ago 

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People talk about the destruction of the middle class.

By the numbers and adjusting for inflation, the percentage of Americans in the middle class has indeed been shrinking consistently for the last fifty years.

The people who bemoan the shrinking of the middle class, however, can only pretend that's a bad thing by ignoring where the middle class has gone.

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