Sentence examples for decline of the middle from inspiring English sources

I mean, aside from the rapid decline of the middle class obviously.

Critics, including the Center for American Progress blame those trends for the decline of the middle class.

Or the stagnation and decline of the middle classes over the past 20 years, as manufacturing jobs have vanished overseas.

For the Western industrialized countries, however, the really big story is the slow, inexorable decline of the middle class.

In this chapter, Kucich traces Stevenson's literary masochism to an increasingly fragmented evangelical psychological ideology that symbolized the decline of the middle class.

President Obama has embraced the nation's community colleges, arguing that they are vital bulwarks against the decline of the middle class — and of America's competitiveness.

Rapid growth of upper-income households, coupled with an increase in less-educated low earners, has driven the decline of the middle-income population to a hair below 50% of the total this year, Pew found.

With the decline of unions, the middle class has lost its bargaining leverage.

Strict "green" planning regimes are also accelerating the decline of the local middle class by driving housing prices up, greatly diminishing the once wide affordability for the middle class.

These are some of the conclusions from a new working paper by a group of economists investigating the reasons for the decline of the American middle class.

The pressure of the attention economy means that for many years the decline of "the mass middle" has been predicted; now the data suggests it has arrived.