(New York: Basic Books, 2000), 11. Teixeira and Rogers call the white working class the “forgotten majority,”
because “we haven’t heard much about them of late and... they are... about 55 percent of the voting
population” (p. x).
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Middle Finger,” Los Angeles Times , February 16, 2016, http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-na-trump-south-
carolina-20160216-story.html.
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Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb, The Hidden Injuries of Class (New York: W.W. Norton, 1972).
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https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-identity-liberalism.html?
partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0.
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Professionals, and the Missing Middle,” Center for American Progress (2010): 3,
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For a description of the methodology used to calculate the income medians and ranges for the poor, the
professional elite, and the working class, see Williams and Boushey, “The Three Faces of Work-Family
Conflict” (data and method appendix), 74. Many thanks to Heather Boushey and Kavya Vaghul of the
Washington Center for Equitable Growth for updating these figures with 2015 data obtained from the 2014
Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (dollar values adjusted for inflation using
the Consumer Price Index Research Series available from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics).
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Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Occupational Outlook Handbook: Police and Detectives,” U.S. Department of
Labor, https://www.bls.gov/ooh/protective-service/police-and-detectives.htm.
Williams and Boushey, “The Three Faces of Work-Family Conflict,” 3 (figures updated with 2015 data).
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