Boston Review on Ending Urban Poverty and Middle Class (Warren) issues

In their Forums and Special Issues section, the Boston Review includes a couple of articles on urban poverty plus a number of articles on the middle class:

• Dalton Conley, Ending Urban Poverty Introduction
• Patrick Sharkey, The Inherited Ghetto
• Stefanie DeLuca, Neighborhood Matters

Middle Class Principal Article: Elizabeth Warren & Amelia Warren Tyagi, What's Hurting the Middle Class?

Responses:

• Jacob S. Hacker, Economic Risk has shifted from the government and corporations to workers and their families
• Jonathan Gruber, The middle class has a higher standard of living than ever before. Who should pay for it?
• G. Marcus Cole, Consumer bankruptcy is insurance for which the insured need not save or pay
• Jeff Madrick, Why have the left and the right both distorted the central facts about consumer debt?
• Stephen Brobeck, For many, there are few attractive savings options and much opportunity to build debt
• David Crockett, A real agenda for change must take consumer culture seriously
• Chuck Collins, The middle class is picking up the slack for both tax cuts and privatized public services
• A. Mechele Dickerson, Even before the new changes, bankruptcy laws were racially biased
• Tamara Draut, The larger story is about the triumph of market values and the denigration of government
• Jared Bernstein, Male wage stagnation is the central explanation for the middle-class squeeze
• Robert D. Manning, There has been a profound transformation in how Americans define needs and wants
• Juliet Schor, As public goods decay and democracy wanes, the populace is offered SUVs, malls, and debt
• Elizabeth Warren & Amelia Warren Tyagi, Response: So long as we talk in terms of over-consumption, we strengthen the attack on the middle

Thank you to Patrick S. O'Donnell for bringing this to my attention!
-E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu