By Rachel Goldfarb, originally published on Next New Deal
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The Death of an Employer Scam (TAP)
Workers who are misclassified as independent contractors lose out on wages, benefits, and workplace protections - but Harold Meyerson says recent crackdowns could signal the end of industry-wide misclassification.
Unemployed, and Heading Toward Foreclosure (MSNBC)
More than half of the long-term unemployed live in owner-occupied homes, reports Suzy Khimm, and now they're struggling to keep their homes with no income and less-than-successful safety net programs.
America's Class System Across The Life Cycle (PolicyShop)
Matt Bruenig borrows charts from a wide variety of sources to look at how income inequality effects full lives, from childhood stress levels, to college completion rates, to age of death.
The Right's New "Welfare Queens": The Middle Class (The New Yorker)
George Packer says that Republican Senators at a recent committee hearing preferred to pin the economy's problem on adults choosing not to work instead of income inequality.
Democrats, as Part of Midterm Strategy, to Schedule Votes on Pocketbook Issues (NYT)
Jeremy W. Peters and Michael D. Shear report that the Senate Democrats' goals are less about passing legislation to fight inequality than getting Republicans on record opposing these bills.
U.S. Banks Enjoy 'Too-Big-to-Fail' Advantage: Fed Study (Reuters)
Emily Stephenson and Jonathan Spicer report on a new series of research papers by Federal Reserve economists that confirm that "too big to fail" advantages continued into 2009, after the financial crisis.
Will a For-Profit Degree Help You Get a Job? (The Atlantic)
Graduates of 72 percent of for-profit college career programs earn less than high school dropouts, reports Sophie Quinton. That's led to concerns that such schools waste federal financial aid, and calls for tighter standards.
New on Next New Deal
How the Weakening of American Labor Led to the Shrinking of America’s Middle Class
In the second post in his series describing his new report on labor organizing reform, Roosevelt Institute Senior Fellow Richard Kirsch looks at the era in which corporations began to shift profits away from workers.