{"id":21747,"date":"2018-12-31T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=0c6eb82c31a0f3ab6c686ab9f2a8e57f"},"modified":"2018-12-31T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T08:00:00","slug":"whatever-happened-to-the-middle-class-with-heather-boushey-and-matthew-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2018\/12\/31\/whatever-happened-to-the-middle-class-with-heather-boushey-and-matthew-stewart\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever happened to the middle class? (with Heather Boushey and Matthew Stewart)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <p>The American middle class is shrinking and, contrary to popular belief, globalization and automation are not to blame. Far from inevitable, skyrocketing inequality is a choice. In this episode, we look at the policy choices that have relentlessly undermined the middle class, and why we desperately need to choose a better future.<\/p><p>Heather Boushey: Executive director and chief economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Author of <em>Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict. <\/p><p><\/em><\/p><p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hboushey?lang=en\">@HBoushey<\/a><\/p><p>Matthew Stewart: Philosopher, D.Phil from Oxford University. Author of <em>Nature\u2019s God <\/em>and <em>The Management Myth. <\/em>Contributor to <em>The Atlantic<\/em>.<\/p><p>Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/mwstewart.com\/\">https:\/\/mwstewart.com\/<\/a> <\/p><p>Further reading: <\/p><p>(1) <a href=\"http:\/\/evonomics.com\/new-social-security-system-sharing-economy-hanauer\/\">http:\/\/evonomics.com\/new-social-security-system-sharing-economy-hanauer\/<\/a><\/p><p>(2) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2014\/11\/overtime-pay-obama-congress-112954\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2014\/11\/overtime-pay-obama-congress-112954<\/a><\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"\">Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        The American middle class is shrinking and, contrary to popular belief, globalization and automation are not to blame. Far from inevitable, skyrocketing inequality is a choice. In this episode, we look at the policy choices that have relentles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21748,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21747\/revisions\/21748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}