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Americans in limbo:
They're not the “new poor”—yet—but they're losing their grip on the middle class. Downward mobility—the most important sociological development of the 1980s.

By Michael Harrington



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SEE ALSO: Charities; Iron and steel workers; Monongahela River Valley; Public welfare; Social mobility; Trade-unions
Response: June 1983, page 6
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