Middle class

By Robert Parry: The newly minted Republican ticket of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan is placing a big – and some might say cynical – bet that the stereotype of the “greedy geezer” is real, that Americans now eligible for Medicare or close to it don’t care that the popular health ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Nov 9, 2018

The Independent uncovers Britain's stealth tax on its poorest residents: Tax cuts for low and middle-income families in April will be dwarfed by hidden reductions in tax credits, according to a study for The Independent. The analysis found that the £1bn of tax cuts in April ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Anyone believe the dream any more? Gawker's Hamilton Nolan on the rapidly disintegrating middle class in America: We have become and will become ever more so a nation in which a vast economic underclass caters to a tiny upper class that possesses the lion's share of the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

This is a comedy skit I wrote about a year ago about the relationship between middle class white kids and their black friends. I wrote it because I was always intrigued as to why white kids felt the need to 'yo it up' in front of their black friends. Some of my closest childhood ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018