The Middle Class, Then and Now

EXPERT COMMENTARY

The Middle Class, Then and Now

By Donald J. Boudreaux |
Dec 25, 2012

Recently in The New York Times, Paul Krugman gazed backed longingly at the 1950s: “America in the 1950s made the rich pay their fair share; it gave workers the power to bargain for decent wages and benefits; yet contrary to right-wing propaganda then and now, it prospered. And we can do that again.”

That dec