"What killed the middle class?"
Psst. The middle-class is bigger than it's ever been. Ever.
I'm still alive, and many of my friends who were middle income are now upper middle class.
Yep, we're dying like flies! LOL.
Yep. And the "lower class" in the US today enjoys more material prosperity than any population anywhere in the history of civilization.
Impossible to take anything he writes seriously. Here, for example, is just a sample of where Joel Hirschhorn is coming from .
This whole silly screed is just warmed-over psuedo-populist rhetoric in the service of classic class warfare, straight out of the latest edition of the Marxist playbook: 'Leninism For Dummies'.