Subject: ALICE Americans and Our Shrinking Middle Class
From: Andrei Cherny <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 09:50:31 -0400 (EDT)

Support New Progressive IdeasOctober 29, 2013

Dear John,

On Sunday, The Washington Post published a piece I wrote on the new ALICE class (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001P9xDHEdStup3GX7PwNPLwSihRh8GjFfLjbTTQP5pyVoSk49ZRXSrnpQmQBLpXHGUPbzUBxyclb7y2ccTAuPYtrFFbvZqcZ_tiWX9nECbX4BJBViStAuH8-Feyz2UU-pD1FMoikuV9Io_NLSJLXmlfr-sW3IjWZkyjcp_BN92M8fD0cloPumpU5yVbZGQMB71oTVaThCEochYmeXIyCUq8kYUD5RrSG1kiv21obQ_ialcLXyBTvhVnp-BRxfayzANGihHQmIfq3JOq-jgSUGZtzPoCwSoHHoLT0vqbuE3Jnw=) -- Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed. These Americans have a unique set of experiences and outlook that make them distinct from both the poor and the middle class from which they have been cleaved. This kind of analysis -- and the agenda of asset building that comes with it -- is what we do at Democracy.

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President, Democracy

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