The Middle Class Crush Zone

Ford Madox Brown, The Last of England

Friends—

The middle class ain’t what it used to be.

A recent OECD report, Under Pressure: The Squeezed Middle Class, tells us that,

“[O]ver the past 30 years, middle-income households have experienced dismal income growth or even stagnation in some countries. This has fueled perceptions that the current socio-economic s…