scholarly journals Recent Trends in Household Wealth in the United States: Rising Debt and the Middle-Class Squeeze

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward N. Wolff
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
The United States ◽  
Household Wealth ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Middle Class Squeeze

scholarly journals Recent Trends in the Size Distribution of Household Wealth

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward N Wolff
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Racial Disparities ◽  
Size Distribution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Household Wealth ◽  
Survey Of Consumer Finances ◽  
Net Worth ◽  
Distribution Of Wealth ◽  
Consumer Finances ◽  
Recent Trends

Based on the Survey of Consumer Finances, the distribution of wealth in the United States became much more unequal in the 1980s and that trend continued, albeit at a slower pace, in the 1990s. The only households that saw their mean net worth rise in absolute terms between 1983 and 1995 were those in the top 20 percent and the gains were particularly strong for the top one percent. All other groups were particularly strong for the top one percent. All other groups suffered real wealth losses, including the median household, and declines were particularly precipitous at the bottom. Racial disparities widened, and young households also lost out over this period.

Middle-Class Victorian Street Arabs: Modern Re-creations of the Baker Street Irregulars

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic Cheetham
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Street Children ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Upward Shift

In three of Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories there are brief appearances of the Baker Street Irregulars, a group of ‘street Arabs’ who help Holmes with his investigations. These children have been re-imagined in modern children's literature in at least twenty-seven texts in a variety of media and with writers from both Britain and the United States. All these modern stories show a marked upward shift in the class of the Irregulars away from the lower working class of Conan-Doyle's originals. The shift occurs through attributing middle-class origins to the leaders of the Irregulars, through raising the class of the Irregulars in general, and through giving the children life environments more comfortable, safe, and financially secure than would have been possible for late-Victorian street children. Because of the variety in texts and writers, it is argued that this shift is not a result of the conscious political or ideological positions of individual writers, but rather reflects common unconscious narrative choices. The class-shift is examined in relation to the various pressures of conventions in children's literature, concepts of audience, and common concepts of class in society.

scholarly journals Recent trends in breast surgery in the United States and United Kingdom.

BMJ ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 292 (6534) ◽  
pp. 1487-1491 ◽  
Author(s):  
E R Greenberg ◽  
M Stevens
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Breast Surgery ◽  
The United States ◽  
Recent Trends

Class Politics, American-Style

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 659-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Waddell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Political Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Rich ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Winner Take All ◽  
Take All

Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson's Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class is both a work of political science and a contribution to broad public discussion of distributive politics. Its topic could not be more relevant to a US polity wracked by bitter partisan disagreements about taxes, social spending, financial regulation, social insecurity, and inequality. The political power of “the rich” is a theme of widespread public attention. The headline on the cover of the January–February 2011 issue of The American Interest—“Inequality and Democracy: Are Plutocrats Drowning Our Republic?”—is indicative. Francis Fukuyama's lead essay, entitled “Left Out,” clarifies that by “plutocracy,” the journal means “not just rule by the rich, but rule by and for the rich. We mean, in other words, a state of affairs in which the rich influence government in such a way as to protect and expand their own wealth and influence, often at the expense of others.” Fukuyama makes clear that he believes that this state of affairs obtains in the United States today.Readers of Perspectives on Politics will know that the topic has garnered increasing attention from political scientists in general and in our journal in particular. In March 2009, we featured a symposium on Larry Bartels's Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age. And in December 2009, our lead article, by Jeffrey A. Winters and Benjamin I. Page, starkly posed the question “Oligarchy in the United States?” and answered it with an equally stark “yes.” Winner-Take-All Politics thus engages a broader scholarly discussion within US political science, at the same time that it both draws upon and echoes many “classic themes” of US political science from the work of Charles Beard and E. E. Schattschneider to Ted Lowi and Charles Lindblom.In this symposium, we have brought together a group of important scholars and commentators who offer a range of perspectives on the book and on the broader themes it engages. While most of our discussants are specialists on “American politics,” we have also sought out scholars beyond this subfield. Our charge to the discussants is to evaluate the book's central claims and evidence, with a focus on three related questions: 1) How compelling is its analysis of the “how” and “why” of recent US public policy and its “turn” in favor of “the rich” and against “the middle class”? 2) How compelling is its critique of the subfield of “American politics” for its focus on the voter–politician linkage and on “politics as spectacle” at the expense of an analysis of “politics as organized combat”? 3) And do you agree with its argument that recent changes in US politics necessitate a different, more comparative, and more political economy–centered approach to the study of US politics?—Jeffrey C. Isaac, Editor

Recent Trends in Clinical Outcomes and Resource Utilization for Pulmonary Embolism in the United States

CHEST Journal ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 136 (4) ◽  
pp. 983-990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Park ◽  
Louis Messina ◽  
Phong Dargon ◽  
Wei Huang ◽  
Rocco Ciocca ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Pulmonary Embolism ◽  
Clinical Outcomes ◽  
Resource Utilization ◽  
The United States ◽  
Recent Trends

Maternal Mortality in the United States: Recent Trends, Current Status, and Future Considerations

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 110-110
Author(s):  
K.S. Joseph ◽  
A. Boutin ◽  
S. Lisonkova ◽  
G.M. Muraca ◽  
N. Razaz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Maternal Mortality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Recent Trends
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