… Is a new majority in fact ready to support a political agenda based on ending or reducing economic inequality through government activism? There are circumstances like those of the early 1930s when a majority of Americans have backed progressive economic reform and government intervention and even the kind of […] Read more »
Can Hillary Clinton Be a Woman of the People?
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign is based on the assumption that voters are angrier at the rich than they are at the poor. Her strategy poses a dilemma for Democrats, who are arguing among themselves about whether targeting the rich is an approach that will work. CONT. Thomas B. Edsall, […] Read more »
The Second Roundtable on the White Working Class
Welcome to the second white working class roundtable, a project of The Democratic Strategist in collaboration with the Washington Monthly. … The present White working class roundtable is organized around a provocative strategy paper by leading opinion analyst Stan Greenberg that is entitled “The Fight for Working People Begins with […] Read more »
Attaining Adulthood
One of the deep, long-term changes in American lives has been what social historians call the “standardization” of the life course. From the 19th into the 20th century, increasingly more young Americans were able to follow a common sequence: get educated, get a job, leave parents’ home, get married, have […] Read more »
Give to Those at the Bottom? Sure, as Long as They Stay There
When it comes to reducing inequality, Americans may be open to bolder solutions for reining in those at the top than for ones boosting people at the bottom. But sometimes that depends on how close to the bottom they are. CONT. Noam Scheiber, New York Times Read more »
Why don’t voters demand more redistribution?
… Opposition to redistribution is partly rooted in the fact that few American voters consider themselves poor or working class, and even fewer understand just how much more money the wealthy have than they themselves do. Yet even if a majority of voters perfectly understood their relative position in the […] Read more »