PBS NewsHour

Writer Asks: Can the Middle Class Be Saved?

Clip: 09/01/2011 | 8m 45s

The cover article in the latest issue of The Atlantic Magazine asks: "Can the middle class be saved?" Jeffrey Brown and the author of the article, Don Peck, discusses what he sees as the erosion of America's middle class.

Aired: 09/01/11

Rating: NR

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