The lower-middle-class households of the 1960s and 70s produced a specific kind of adult — frugal without meaning to be, grateful without being asked, and carrying a quiet shame nobody ever named for them

The children of the lower-middle class in the 1960s and 70s didn't grow up poor, and that distinction is where all the confusion begins. Poverty has a vocabulary. Struggle has a sociology. But the households that sat one uncertain rung above real hardship — the ones where the ...Read More





