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Vice-President Biden called the middle class the “backbone” of America.
We agree. The middle class reconciles and moderates other classes.
Biden is in charge of a task force to get the middle class “up and running again.”
We agree that the middle class is weakening. One indicator: its share of the national income pie fell [...]

“Source, where are you?
Remedy, where are you?
Economics, are you finally going to change?”
– Rene Char, “Feuillets d’Hypnos”(1)–
Tocqueville feared the emergence of a despotic state in America — an anti-utopia in which a quiet, titular state oversees a timid, hard-working population whose members are all alike and equal, fat, dumb, and happy.
In his much maligned “malaise” [...]

Vice President Biden is in charge of a task force to strengthen the middle class.
Last month, he declared in Denver, “The president and I have set a very basic and measurable goal that we’ll be held to…[W]hen middle-class incomes begin to grow, and when people aspiring to the middle class get a shot to become [...]