Bloomberg senior writer Sean Dunan is back on the show today to tell us why the middle class isn't necessarily such an easy group to pin down or pander to. The American middle class is 100 million adults, and we often talk about those folks as a kind of amorphous mass that all share these common traits. And it's an incredibly diverse population. It's black and white and Latino. It's older. It's younger. They're increasingly independent. We're watching this American middle class closely get buffeted by this end of an era.
The American middle class is feeling the squeeze: inflation, wages that haven’t kept up, higher interest rates and fluctuating markets are all adding up to a loss of collective wealth. Bloomberg’s Shawn Donnan and a team of journalists are following the economic lives of two dozen middle class families across the country as we head into the 2024 election. In this first installment we hear from four of them. What does it mean to be middle class in America today–and how will their shifting fortunes influence the way they vote?
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