For the first time on record the middle class failed to grow with the economy

April 12, 2008
For the first time on record the middle class failed to grow with the economy

I wonder what the answers would be if each American asked himself or herself the question: "How is the war in Iraq helping me?"

The economic boom so highly touted by the president and his supporters "was, for most Americans," said Mr. Leonhardt, "nothing of the sort." Despite the sustained expansion of the past few years, the middle class — for the first time on record — failed to grow with the economy.