"The Middle Class is in a funk, its view of the future growing dim as fear rolls in like a storm."

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Op-Ed Columnist

The Morose Middle Class

By CHARLES M. BLOW

Published: April 26, 2013

The New York Times

"The Middle Class is in a funk, its view of the future growing dim as fear rolls in like a storm.

An Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor poll released Thursday found that while most Americans (56 percent) hold out hope that they‘ll be in a higher class at some point, even more Americans (59 percent) are worried about falling out of their current class over the next few years. In fact, more than eight in 10 Americans believe that more people have fallen out of the middle class than moved into it in the past few years.

The poll paints a picture of a group that is scared to death about its station in life."

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