May 02, 2004

Issues In Depth | 4.28.04

Moving Ideas Network, a project of The American Prospect, presents resources on the magazine's Special Report on Bush's War on the Middle Class.

Articles in The American Prospect's Special Report

Ronald Reagan's domestic program was properly understood as a war on the poor. But as this pacakge of articles shows, George W. Bush's is more like a war on the middle class.

American Families at Risk: An Overview
by Richard C. Leone

Middle Class and Broke: Once, the larger society shared the cost of raising and educating the next generation. These days, the responsibilities are falling more to individual families. It's bringing parents to their knees.
by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi

• Additional Readings:
• Penn area revival lures many, pushes others out, 2/24/2003, Philadelphia Inquirer
• Preschools are popping at the seams, 7/09/2002, Christian Science Monitor
• Building Blocks For Every Kid, 2/12/2001, Newsweek
• The State of Working America, Economic Policy Institute *
• Low Wages = Low Quality: Solving the Real Preschool Teacher Crisis, The National Institute for Early Education Research
• Myths About the Adequacy of Current Child Care Funding (PDF), Center for Law and Social Policy *
• Five Reasons Why the Senate Should Adopt the Snowe-Dodd Amendment to Increase Child Care Funding (PDF), Center for Law and Social Policy *

Schools of Hard Knocks: Education is the ticket of entry to the middle class. So why has Bush done so little to establish social equity and so much to impede social mobility? Chalk it up to "compassionate conservatism"
by Richard D. Kahlenberg

• Additional Readings:
  
• Rags, Riches and Race: The Intergenerational Economic Mobility of Black and White Families in the United States (PDF), Tom Hertz, Department of Economics, American University
• Budgeting for Disaster: Bush's Proposed 2005 Budget, Moving Ideas
• Statement of Lawrence Gladieux to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives
• School Choice: Doing It the Right Way Makes a Difference, Brookings Institute

• Reference:
• Public Schools of North Carolina
• No Child Left Behind, US Deptartment of Education
• Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, US Deptartment of Education
• Income Surveys, US Census Bureau
• Educating America, Moving Ideas

Don't Mourn, Mobilize: Middle-class voters grasp that Bush is not representing their interests. But they don't act on that perception. They might - but it's up to Bemocrats to motivate them.
by Ruy Teixeira

• Additional Readings:
• President's Savings Proposals Likely To Swell Long-Term Deficits, Reduce National Saving, And Primarily Benefit Those With Substantial Wealth, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities*
• The President's Proposal To Make Tax Cuts Permanent: $2.2 Trillion Cost Poses Danger To Economy In The Long Run, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities*
• Slash and Burn Economics: Extending the Tax Cuts, Moving Ideas

• Reference:
• Washington Post Tax polls
• Hardships in America: The Real Story of Working Families (PDF), Economic Policy Institute*
• How much is enough? Basic Family Budgets for Working Families, Economic Policy Institute*

Losing Ground: Outsourcing jobs, harassing labor unions, repealing safety regulations, undercutting benefits: The Bush administration is clearly winning a great victory in its war on America's workers.
by Jeff Faux

• Additional Readings:
• Missing the Moving Target: Meager job growth and the poor track record of the administration's job forecasts (PDF), Economic Policy Institute *
• The broad reach of long-term unemployment (PDF), Economic Policy Institute *
• White House Backs Off CEA Prediction Of "Average" Job Growth, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities *
• Weak Recovery Claims New Victim: Workers' Wages (PDF), Jared Bernstein, Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute*
• Measuring employment since the recovery : A comparison of the household and payroll surveys (PDF), Economic Policy Institute *

Throwing Away the Rules: In its zeal to kowtow to business, the Bush administration is dismantiling a century of regulations that protect middle-class consumers from financial fraud and health hazards.
by Merrill Goozner

• Additional Readings:
• Stop Corporate Control of the Media, Moving Ideas Network
• Scientific Integrity in Policymaking: An Investigation into the Bush Administration's Misuse of Science, Union of Concerned Scientists

• Reference:
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
• World Sugar Research Organization, World Health Organization

The Great Tax Shift: The president says his cuts are simply a way of "giving people their money back." But the bill will come due one way or another - and lower - and middle-class households will foot it.
by William G. Gale and Peter R. Orszag

• Additional Readings:
• Tax Returns: A Comprehensive Assessment of the Bush Administration's Record on Cutting Taxes, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities *
• The President's Proposal To Make Tax Cuts Permanent: $2.2 Trillion Cost Poses Danger To Economy In The Long Run, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities *

Future Retirees at Risk: Bush's "ownership society" would replace existing social-insurance systems with personal savings accounts. His approach threatens to make old age and poverty synonymous again.
by Alicia H. Munnell

• Additional Readings:
• Understanding the Social Security and Medicare Projections, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities *
• Fact Sheet : Misleading Claims About New Social Security and Medicare Projections, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities *
• What The Trustees' Report Indicates About The Financial Status Of Social Security, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities *
  

Middle Class Reference:

• Center for Law and Social Policy *
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities*
• Brookings Institute
• Economic Policy Institute *
• Campaign for America's Future *

* Denotes a member of Moving Ideas

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