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State of the Union: Obama Seeks to Narrow Income Gap
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Obama's State of the Union address in 2014 focusses on increasing the minimum wage, reducing inequality and creating opportunities for the middle class. It marks a shift to doing things by executive order wherever possible to avoid protracted debates and delays by Congress.
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Shrinking incomes, low job growth, growth in temporary jobs, offshoring of jobs, are part of a trend since 1989. This is compounded by acceleration of developments during the last decade of low savings and paltry return on savings, effects on net worth of the financial crisis of 2008 through job losses, lost income, foreclosures, high cost of health care and college tution for children. The combination is creating a new kind of middle class poverty in the U.S. The Obama administration has pushed for college education even as it is becoming less affordable and neglected jobs training. The push to raise the minimum wage helps the poor but does not do as much for the middle class.
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Do the poor deserve to be poor because they are indolent and lazy or are their many kinds of poor, some indolent and lazy just like some indolent and lazy wealthy. And in our society should there be opportunities for all. Are some poor doing everything including hard work and good habits but having one or two events push them below the poverty line because of unexpected bills, medical emergency, or some bad event outside their control? These are the moral arguments on different sides. Beyond this there are children, and is a fair society going to make opportunities available to all children of all classes? Egan takes up the issue of a U.S. Congress that employs a certain kind of moral argument for cutting off food stamps and unemployment benefits to the poor.
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Meyerson, Ignatius and others ask the tough questions about America and the prospects for a future with a disappearing middle class, pointing to the need to structure globalization and build cooperation between workers, management and the government in new constructive ways.
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The shrinking U.S. middle class and what this may mean for consumption in the years ahead.
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If only 1.9 million hourly workers earned more than $20 per hour in April 2008, when the deep downturn that hit in October 2008 had not ocurred and the shift to part time employment and lower auto related wages was just underway, what would the numbers look like by 2010? And what does that mean for consumption? Does it prolong the downturn with demand slow to pick up? What does it mean for exports from China?
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