Twenty-seven Signs that the Standard of Living for America’s Middle Class is Dropping

Every month hundreds of thousands more Americans fall out of the middle class and into poverty. 
Check the signs

When Companies Refuse to Interview the Unemployed for Jobs

Many companies refuse to even consider the unemployed for jobs, at a time when long-term joblessness is at its highest level in decades.Read the Time magazine story

New study charts psychological toll of long-term joblessness

Increasingly, America's unemployment crisis is becoming a matter of duration. Jobs are being created again, and layoffs are much rarer these days than they were during the nadir of the Great Recession. But for those without work, things aren't getting much better.Read the story from The Lookout

WE, THE PEOPLE, DEMAND that candidates for public office take immediate steps to halt the destruction of the American Middle Class through the following actions:

MIDDLE CLASS VOTER DEMANDS

IN THE NEWS

Census data Show Wealth of Older Americans is 47 times that of Young Adults, Widest Gap Ever
Read the AP report

The Decline and Fall of the American Middle Class
The heart of our political malaise is that the middle class, so long a powerhouse of US prosperity, is being crushed as never before.
Read the Commentary from the UK Guardian

The Fallacy of Post-Industrial Prosperity

Of all the lies that the American people have been told the past four decades, the biggest one may be this: We’ll all come out ahead in the shift from an industrial to a post-industrial society.

We’ve lost the jobs that created the broadly shared prosperity that made us the envy of the world. In their place, when we’ve created jobs at all, they’ve generated neither prosperity nor security. 
Read the commentary from the Washington Post