Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

This advice comes as a surprise: job searching is not joblessness; it is a job in itself and should be structured to resemble one, right down to the more regrettable features of employment, like having to follow orders--orders which are in this case self-generated.

I'm painfully middle class.

As the wicked flee when none pursueth, so does the middle-class wrestle when none contendeth. They cried out for freedom, it came down on them in a flood. Nothing remains but a few floating timbers of psychotherapy.

In poverty, people are possessions. In the middle class, possessions means things,

It is the middle class which takes the country forward.