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The Middle Class

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All the presidential candidates promise to prop up America’s middle class, but there is little agreement on what the term means. Who exactly are the middle class?

Guests:

Jean Ross, executive director of the California Budget Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization seeking fiscal reforms to benefit low and moderate income Californians

David Henderson, research fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey

Claude Fischer, professor in the department of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley

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