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Chicago’s “Disappearing Middle Class” Can Be Found in Its Proliferating Upper Middle-Class Neighborhoods

In a recent  with Stephen Rose, I argued that the narrative of a “shrinking middle class”…

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There Are Many Reasons to Cheer Up About the State of the Middle Class

This piece originally appeared at National Review Online and is reprinted here with permission. Statistics show that…

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It’s time to face up to our social poverty problem

Over the past half-century, virtually all aspects of social life have deteriorated in America. We…

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Family Dinners Offer a Silver Lining in a Bleak Social Capital Landscape

Across a variety of indicators, social capital in America is deteriorating. But one trend appears…