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Middle Class Squeeze
How the Bush Administration and congressional policies are failing the middle class

Middle Class Squeeze logo The Middle Class Squeeze highlights how Bush Administration and Congressional policies are failing middle-class Americans. Stagnating or declining real wages for workers, exploding health care and college costs, and record-high gas prices -- among other challenges -- are damaging most Americans' way of life. Meanwhile, the Bush Administration and Congress have passed trillion-dollar tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy, and have pushed a variety of policies that hurt workers and their families. Taken together, these developments are squeezing the middle class, and threatening most Americans' valued way of life. Congressman Miller, as the Senior Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee, will document the squeeze on the middle class each week and welcomes your suggestions and comments at middleclassqueeze@mail.house.gov.

  • Article from the Wall Street Journal 2/15/2005
    Middle-Class Families Strain Public Health-Insurance Plans
  • Article from the San Francisco Chronicle 12/31/2004
    Middle-class Americans face life without health insurance
  • Article from the Washington Post 9/20/2004
    As Income Gap Widens, Uncertainty Spreads
  • Op-Ed from Congressman George Miller 6/13/2004
    A Wonderful Life, If You're On Top; Good Numbers, Bad Results: Many Still Struggling to Get By
  • New Report 6/3/2004
    When Work Doesn't Pay: A Report on the Republican Job Record

    ISSUES OF THE MIDDLE CLASS SQUEEZE

    1. September 9, 2004, Issue #11 -- The Senior Squeeze: Rising Health Care Costs

    2. September 2, 2004, Issue #10 -- America's Growing Inequality Problem (pdf version)

    3. July 22, 2004, Issue #9 -- The Middle Class Squeeze (pdf version)

    4. July 15, 2004, Issue #8 -- Black Middle Class: Getting Squeezed (pdf version)

    5. July 8, 2004, Issue #7 -- Small Business and the Middle Class Squeeze (pdf version)

    6. July 1, 2004, Issue #6 -- Troop Support: Helping on the homefront (pdf version)

    7. June 24, 2004, Issue #5 -- Blood Pressure Up? Must be the Health Care Squeeze (pdf version)

    8. June 23, 2004, Special Edition -- Middle Class Squeeze in the News (pdf version)

    9. June 17, 2004, Issue #4 -- The Debt Burden: Borrowing More to Make Ends Meet (pdf version)

    10. June 3, 2004, Issue #3 -- Education: Risings Costs and Vanishing Aid. Can you spell "Squeeze"? (pdf version)

    11. May 27, 2004, Issue #2 -- Prices at the Pump: The Bush Gas “Tax” (pdf version)

    12. May 20, 2004, Issue #1 -- Paychecks: Workers Feeling the Squeeze (pdf version)


    Each week, the Middle Class Squeeze looks at different aspects of how Bush
    Administration and congressional policies are failing the middle class.

    Feeling squeezed? Send us an email about it: middleclasssqueeze@mail.house.gov

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