The Media and America's Class Divide

In his On the Media column today, the LA Times‘ James Rainey argues that the media needs to start leading a serious, realistic discussion of class in America.

Even though economists say the gap between haves and have-nots has been building for three decades, the growing income disparity and its causes have come up for discussion mostly as a sidebar — removed from the front page, rarely the lead story on the evening news.

It’s hard to know why arguably the central story of our times — featuring the retreat of the stable, single-wage household — has been pushed off the front burner.

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