Some in GOP seek to lift the middle class in a Trump budget favoring the wealthy: Elaine Maag and Bruce Fuller

Some in GOP seek to lift the middle class in a Trump budget favoring the wealthy: Elaine Maag and Bruce Fuller

Unless economic support is spread fairly to struggling families, popular support for President Trump’s budget plan may sink lower, as voters ask, “Who is the president really trying to help?" write guest columnists Elaine Maag, senior fellow at the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, Urban Institute and Brookings Institution, and Bruce Fuller, professor emeritus at the University of California.

Recentering the Middle Class in American Politics

Missing middle. As our discourse focuses on the political extremes, it neglects the vast American middle class that is quietly working to solve society’s problems. Image Credit: George Caleb Bingham (American, 1811-79), “The County Election”/St. Louis Art Museum via Wikimedia CommonsOne of the most overlooked truths in American politics today is not the polarization at the extremes, but the vacuum at the center. The middle—both economically and …