Edward McClelland is trying to prove a point by saying that the middle class is slowly fading away and in the future it will only be the rich and poor, the middle class will no longer exist. Edward McClelland starts off by talking about how a High school teacher was saying to his class that a high school dropout got a job as an electrician’s assistant and he owned a Camaro while the high school teacher was driving a banged up station wagon. Edward McClelland’s article discusses the factors that contributed to the shrink of the middle class in the U.S. The 1970s saw the growth of the country's middle class with plenty of job prospects and economic conditions that generated lots of jobs. It is said that the decline of the middle class resulted from the failure of the government policies to industry deregulation, finance, labor, and international trade which crippled manufacturing activities.
Throughout the decade’s inequality has affected class and income. People can relate to situations of confronting inequality. Anybody should be equal no matter how they live or how…show more content… Today, America's middle class is overextending themselves in an effort to give their children more opportunities Many middle class citizens are purchasing homes that they can't afford, so that their kids will be attending a good school so that their children can have more opportunities This shows the growing gap between the wealthy and the poor. Another reason that inequality between the classes is important to talk about is because of politics, if politicians are able to buy and own the government they will. Today, that is exactly what is happening, politicians have enough wealth and influence that they are unaffected by the same rules that the middle or lower have to deal with, they pay to get away from things that other social classes won’t get away
