The Coming Class War and How to Avoid it: Rebuilding the American Middle Class

In addressing the decline of the middle class, the authors determine that the middle class has not only continued to shrink, but that the majority of economic benefits have continued to be concentrated into fewer and fewer hands, increasingly the upper one half of one percent of the population. Financial interests of the powerful are overriding the ability of the growing lower and shrinking middle classes to get their economic views represented in Washington. As a result, our society will face growing class conflict in the coming quarter century. The authors conclude their argument by suggesting strategic changes in policy that will stave off the upcoming crisis.