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Trouble is afoot for middle-class workers. You don't have to go far to hear people talking about it.
In today's Wall Street Journal, for example, David Wessel writes that middle-class earnings are taking a beating: "... the fact is that the remarkable burst of productivity of the past decade has not been widely shared with the women or men living at the middle of the American middle class."
In October Wessel wrote a piece about why jobs are "sagging in the middle": "As Harvard economists Lawrence Katz and Claudia Goldin put it recently, 'U.S. employment has been polarizing into high-wage and low-wage jobs at the expense of traditional middle-class jobs.'"
Toward the end of both stories, he mentions what I see as a big part of the solution: education.
