50 Years After the War on Poverty, Will the Middle Class Become the New Poor?

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6. Will they? Where does this person live? They are.

Also, it does not help that liberals and democrats want to put 70 % of the population in the middle class, making it an useless notion. If you live in food stamps, you are not middle class (you may have been, but you are no more in this case). If you earn $200,000 a year, even in NY City, you are not middle class either.

Also, putting Social Security/Medicare and SNAP/TANF in the same category defeats us. Social Security/Medicare is something that people have for the long term. The goal of any progressive should be to see TANF/SNAP as stop gap measures and the goal of a progressive should be to get these people a job on which they can live without them as soon as they can (yes, this is the GOP's rhetoric, but it should be more than a rhetoric for progressives who should do something about it, not just propose measures that will not pass. (Asking federal contractors to pay their employees at least $11 an hour should be a good first step).

Sadly, we are far from this, and Democrats seem intent to confuse things even more.