Middle Class Erosion

Alter Net has laid out a detailed article on the complex series of ills facing ordinary people and disrupting the dream of a middle class lifestyle including housing, unemployment, debt, inflation, deflation, pensions, and healthcare.

If you can bare to read the article, take a deep breadth and remember this is pervasive, we are all facing these problems.

Alter Net: Middle Class Death Watch -- 33 Frightening Economic Developments

“A lawyer has told how she turned to stripping to pay bills after struggling to find a legal job in recession-weary America. The attorney, giving her name only as Carla, graduated from law school ten years ago. But after being made redundant in 2009, she had to take drastic action to avoid drowning in a sea of student loans and other debts. After working as a waitress and a cashier in a gas station, she became so desperate she took a job as an exotic dancer.”