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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics

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Meet America's Growing "Lower Class"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/17/2013 - 22:48The article below from the LA Times is both extremely interesting as well as depressing from a cultural standpoint. For four decades now, the General Social Survey has asked Americans how they identify themselves from a class perspective. While it was always quite common for less fortunate folks to identify themselves as “working class,” there has always been a reluctance to identify as “lower class.” Until last year that is, when a record amount of Americans self-identified as such.


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