介绍:
For the past forty years, the American middle class has gotten slowly, surely purposefully, and not terribly gently screwed. How the middle class got screwed?
In the 50s and 60s, a family can do pretty well on just a single income. But by the mid-1970s, the screwing had begun. Most people didn't know they were getting screwed. They just knew that one income was no longer enough. So, the second parent, usually mom, had to start working to maintain the same standard of living. But even that wasn't enough to keep up.
Middle-class families were left with no choice but to take out huge loans to pay for college and housing. Eventually, they were forced to put health care, their car, even basic living expenses on credit. So where does this leave the average American middle-class citizen? Screwed, shafted, fearing for their finances, and fearing for the future of their children, and very very deep in debt.
