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The Economic Impact of a Changing Middle Class

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Funding for this project is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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  • Page 01: Kai Ryssdal 1 - Image

    Excerpted from: FRONTLINE: How the Deck Is Stacked, in partnership with Marketplace, PBS NewsHour, and PBS Election 2016. © 2017 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

  • Page 02: HTDS: A Shrinking Middle Class

    Excerpted from: FRONTLINE: How the Deck Is Stacked, in partnership with Marketplace, PBS NewsHour, and PBS Election 2016.  ;© 2017 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

  • Page 03: What Does Middle Income Mean - Graph

    Source: Pew Research Center; © 2017 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

  • Page 04: HTDS: Why the Middle Class Matters

    Excerpted from: FRONTLINE: How the Deck Is Stacked, in partnership with Marketplace, PBS NewsHour, and PBS Election 2016. ;© 2017 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

  • Page 05: HTDS: What it Feels Like to be Middle Class

    From: FRONTLINE: How the Deck Is Stacked, in partnership with Marketplace, PBS NewsHour, and PBS Election 2016.Audio clip excerpted from, "What it feels like to be a middle class family today." Used with permission. © 2017 Marketplace, Minnesota Public Radio|American Public Media;© 2017 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

  • Page 06: Change in Household Income, 1995-2015 - Graph

    U.S. Bureau of the Census, Real Median Household Income in the United States [MEHOINUSA672N], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N, November 14, 2017.

  • Page 06: Basic Needs Cost Comparisons - Image

    Icons: Creative Stall via the Noun Project. Data Source: Marketplace, using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics and other sources.

  • Page 06: Aspirations Cost Comparisons - Image

    Icons: Creative Stall via the Noun Project. Data Source: Marketplace, using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics and other sources.

  • Page 07: African American Family - Image

    Rob/Fotolia

  • Page 07: Change in Combined Household Income - Graph

    Graphs and data: © 2015, Pew Research Center. All rights reserved.

  • Page 08: HTDS: A Shrinking Middle Class

    Excerpted from: FRONTLINE: How the Deck Is Stacked, in partnership with Marketplace, PBS NewsHour, and PBS Election 2016.  ;© 2017 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

  • Page 08: HTDS: Why the Middle Class Matters

    Excerped from: FRONTLINE: How the Deck Is Stacked, in partnership with Marketplace, PBS NewsHour, and PBS Election 2016. ;© 2017 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

  • Page 08: HTDS: What it Feels Like to be Middle Class

    From: FRONTLINE: How the Deck Is Stacked, in partnership with Marketplace, PBS NewsHour, and PBS Election 2016.Audio clip excerpted from, "What it feels like to be a middle class family today." Used with permission. © 2017 Marketplace, Minnesota Public Radio|American Public Media;© 2017 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

  • Page 09: Kai Ryssdal 2 – Image

    Excerpted from: FRONTLINE: How the Deck Is Stacked, in partnership with Marketplace, PBS NewsHour, and PBS Election 2016. © 2017 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved.