Middle Class Hollowing-Out Trend

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A Middle Class Hollowing-Out Trend is Societal Trend for a decline in middle-class household proportions.



References

2015

  • https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/09/the-american-middle-class-is-losing-ground/
    • QUOTE: ... The hollowing of the American middle class has proceeded steadily for more than four decades. Since 1971, each decade has ended with a smaller share of adults living in middle-income households than at the beginning of the decade, and no single decade stands out as having triggered or hastened the decline in the middle. Based on the definition used in this report, the share of American adults living in middle-income households has fallen from 61% in 1971 to 50% in 2015. ... ... This report uses household income to group people. For that reason, the term “middle income” is used more often than not. However, “middle class” is also used at times for the sake of exposition.

2013

2009

  • (Carr & Kefalas, 2009) ⇒ Patrick J. Carr, and Maria J. Kefalas. (2009). “Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America." Beacon Press. ISBN: 0807006149
    • BOOK OVERVIEW: In 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain drain and the exodus of young people from America’s countryside. They met and followed working-class “stayers”; ambitious and college-bound “achievers”; “seekers,” who head off to war to see what the world beyond offers; and “returners,” who eventually circle back to their hometowns. What surprised them most was that adults in the community were playing a pivotal part in the town’s decline by pushing the best and brightest young people to leave.

      In a timely, new afterword, Carr and Kefalas address the question “so what can be done to save our communities?” They profile the efforts of dedicated community leaders actively resisting the hollowing out of Middle America. These individuals have creatively engaged small town youth — stayers and returners, seekers and achievers — and have implemented a variety of programs to combat the rural brain drain. These stories of civic engagement will certainly inspire and encourage readers struggling to defend their communities.

2000