Ezra Rosser (American): Poverty Offsetting. From The American Prospect, a special issue on poverty. Dylan Matthews on poverty in the 50 years since The Other America, in five charts. The sharp, sudden decline of America's middle class: They had good, stable jobs until the recession hit — now they're living out of their cars in parking lots. From Alternet, job insecurity: It's the disease of the 21st century — and it's killing us. From Boston Review, a symposium on the impact of wealth on government, with contributions by Larry Bartels, Matthew Yglesias, Mark Schmitt, Nancy Rosenblum, Archon Fung, and more. The ideological attack on job creation: Marty Wolfson on responding to anti-government arguments. The great disparity: William Julius Wilson reviews The Great Divergence by Timothy Noah and Coming Apart by Charles Murray. Erik Loomis on eight ways America's headed back to the robber-baron era. An interview with Joseph Stiglitz on the fallacy that the top 1 percent drives innovation, and why the Reagan Administration was America’s inequality turning point. Robert Putnam says class now trumps race as the great divide in America.
