Stemming Middle-Class Decline: The Challenges to Economic Development Planning

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Are Americans as well-off as we used to be? What is happening to the American middle class? Who are the winners and losers? Tracking income changes over a twenty-year period, Nancey Green Leigh documents the decreasing ability of middle-level earners to purchase the middle standard of living. Leigh reports earnings trends for urban and rural locations, census regions, and the largest states, and compares earnings by race, gender, education, industry, part- or full-time employment, and fringe benefit recipiency. Leigh links the decline of the middle class to economic change and industrial restructuring. She examines planning and policy prescriptions to improve the prospects of the middle economic class. This book provides the data and analysis you need to keep you informed of current