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Will Obama Plan Create a “Rising, Thriving Middle Class”?

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Leo Panitch and Jennifer Taub: President Obama’s SOTU shows he is far more wedded to private sector, free market solutions than restoring the bargain with the middle class.

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Leo Panitch and Jennifer Taub: President Obama’s SOTU shows he is far more wedded to private sector, free market solutions than “restoring the bargain” with the middle class.

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