Middle Incomes: the American Nightmare — The US economy is now almost thrice as big as in the early 1970s – and yet the typical working man finds not a dime of this transformative growth in his pay packet. At an outstanding event in London last week, the Resolution Foundation assembled experts from both sides of the Atlantic to consider the great undeclared class war which has robbed America’s workforce of the fast-growing fruits of their labour for so long.

Interesting piece on how the rich, in America, have won the fruits of economic growth at the expense of the middle class.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/27/middle-incomes-america-oliver-twist-era?newsfeed=true

Interesting talk about this topic that looks at the truths and myths of this issue…