Economic Program | Memo

A Middle Class Success Agenda

by Jim Kessler, Anne Kim and Ryan McConaghy

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For the American middle class, the recession has dealt a blow not just to their economic security but to their aspirations for success. This memo summarizes a variety of ideas proposed by Third Way to get the middle class back on the path to getting ahead. These ideas can help weave a new compact for the middle class, based on three pillars critical to middle class success:

  1. the ability to gain marketable skills and earning power,
  2. a comfortable cushion of savings and wealth, and
  3. reliable supports for work and family such as stable health coverage and dependable child care.
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