Business In The Black: An Empty Middle Class; At the heart of the

From: The Sun Reporter | Date: April 10, 1997 | Copyright information

Sun Reporter, The
04-10-1997
Business In The Black: An Empty Middle Class; At the heart of the fear is that the majority of the loss is in the lower class

If it is true that an army travels on its stomach, then so it must be said that a democracy derives its life from its middle class. Indeed, in the medieval days it was the dukes who demanded justice from their king, thus giving birth to the idea that men might be equal peers in a position to putting a country in its rightful order. On reviewing two different definitions of the middle class in the United States, Mary C. Daly, economist, ...

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