Name: The Myth of the Middle Class
Duration: 38 min 37 s
Channel: Brendan Stone, Alan Nasser
Description: "The Myth of the Middle Class" is a song by Unusual Sources. Counterpunch writer Professor Alan Nasser discusses how ordinary working people try to elevate themselves to a "Middle Class" living standard by taking on debt, and examines the history of a bubble-ridden, debt-plagued 'consumer society.'

The Myth of the Middle Class

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Counterpunch writer Professor Alan Nasser discusses how ordinary working people try to elevate themselves to a "Middle Class" living standard by taking on debt, and examines the history of a bubble-ridden, debt-plagued 'consumer society.'

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Unusual Sources is an anti-war radio program that covers issues from a labour perspective. For more information, see About Unusual Sources. http://hamiltonco

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Genre

Podcasts • Politics

Charts

Peak #17

Peak in subgenre #1

Author

Brendan Stone, Alan Nasser

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Unusual Sources 2015

Uploaded

September 17, 2015

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MP3

MP3 8.8 MB • 32 kbps • 38:37

Story behind the song

The Myth of the Middle Class: Have Most Americans Always Been Poor?

by Alan Nasser

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/28/the-myth-of-the-middle-class-have-most-americans-always-been-poor/

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Look for Alan Nasser's upcoming book: "United States of Emergency: American capitalism and its crises."

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