America’s Dual Economy: Why the Middle Class Is Vanishing
A collection of INET research and articles on how and why the middle class has been shrinking and how this leads to a “dual economy”
Article
Should the state be doing more to fix the economy?
What we’re reading: A weekly scan of published items relevant to the Institute’s work
Conference Session
The Growth of a Dual Economy
Paper
The American Dual Economy: Race, Globalization, and the Politics of Exclusion
I describe the American economy in the twenty-first century as a dual economy in the spirit of W. Arthur Lewis.
Paper
The Vanishing Middle Class: The Growth of a Dual Economy
Growing income inequality is threatening the American middle class, and the middle class is vanishing before our eyes. We are still one country, but the stretch of incomes is fraying the unity of our nation.