The truth is that, though consuming sugar along with the fibres of fruit is better than without, these middle-class healthy drinks may be higher in sugar than the Ribena my mother was fooled into giving us children for our health.
(To keep environmental differences to a minimum, Kagan restricted his sample to children who were white, middle class and healthy at birth).
Kagan brought about 500 babies — as before, all white, middle class and healthy — into the laboratory, placed them in infant seats in front of a video camera and exposed them to a series of novel stimuli.
Back then, the white middle class was healthier, and despite media fear-mongering, long-term crack addiction never really picked up steam in the suburbs.
In these numbers, the disappearing middle class appears pretty healthy.
Union members have fought for education programs, from pre-school to college, because we knew that a broadly educated workforce is necessary to create a thriving middle class and a healthy democracy.
But college degrees won't bring back a healthy middle class in America.
The Progressives rightly began to perceive this healthy middle class and its conservative voting habits as an existential threat.
It was also the only time in the past 35 years when the incomes of the poor and the middle class rose at a healthy pace.
Managing globalization, supporting a healthy middle class in an era of artificial intelligence and incentivizing the preservation of the planet must be among the central challenges, if not the central challenges, of our era.
