Sentence examples for class stagnation from inspiring English sources

Class stagnation was the underlying theme of President Obama's State of the Union speech on Tuesday.

Others contend that middle class stagnation is a myth concocted by the left to justify retro government activism à la 1970s.

The only way you wouldn't get a combination of massive inequality growth and middle class stagnation is if the innovations of the financial sector supercharged the economy so powerfully that the overall pie was bigger for everyone.

"The causes of the massive rise in inequality that we've seen that have caused stagnation for the middle class — stagnation at best — for the past 20 or 30 years are not likely to abate," said Alan B. Krueger, the chairman of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers.

So, the latest is a piece by Donald Boudreaux and Mark Perry purporting to debunk the notion of middle-class stagnation.

A second group of much-cited forces have indeed played a role in middle-class stagnation and inequality, many economists argue, just not as big a role as automation, globalization or education.

As the point man for the Obama administration on economic policy, Krueger has become the leading opponent of those who believe that growing inequality and middle-class stagnation are the inevitable consequences of technological innovation and the disruptive force of globalization.

I hear plenty of progressive rhetoric to the effect that only a rehabilitated union movement can save America from plutocracy and middle-class stagnation, but my sense is that this is a lot like conservative rhetoric to the effect that only a return to constitutional principles will save America from sclerotic socialist decline.

Ours is increasingly a country where sky-high economic expectations coexist with middle class wage stagnation, and where the idealization of married life coexists with steadily rising out-of-wedlock births.

Middle class income stagnation wasn't caused by some unstoppable force of nature, like gravity.

For middle-income workers, union decline, weaker labor regulations, offshoring, federal policy focused on lowering inflation rather than unemployment – all these contributed to middle-class wage stagnation.