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The article presents findings of a study on the comparison between the present status of the U.S. economy and the recession year of 1990. According to 45 percent of respondents, their own families were better off and 21 percent said they were worse off, while 24 percent felt that the average U.S. citizen was worse off and 30 percent said the economy was worse. Among the respondents, 17 percent felt the middle class was doing better and just 20 percent saw improvement among the elderly and 9 percent saw improvement among the poor. No less than 77 percent of respondents felt that high-income families were ahead of the game, while some 53 percent said women were doing better.

The article discusses who in American qualify as the top one percent of the wealthiest Americans in 2012. Information is provided on the profile of the top wealthy who often work in finance, make half of their annual income from interest, dividends, and capital gains, and often have wealthy parents. It is noted that the wealthiest Americans are more likely to be married and have children than middle class or poor Americans.

Explores William Baldwin's article about the status of the middle class in the U.S. Definition of middle class; Cash income of rich and poor in 1984; Inequality in the income; Income share of the middle class; Lack of evidence that the overall proportion of lower-paying jobs in the economy is decreasing; Industrial policy.

This article considers the attitude of U.S. President Ronald Reagan toward the rich. The author observes how the U.S. society has inched away from an egalitarian society in the direction of a merit society in the brief span of Reagan's term. The U.S. public thinks U.S. President Ronald Reagan is for the rich and against the poor. The author argues that the rich are irrelevant in the U.S. middle-class economy and that disabling political indiscretion lies in favoring the large over small and not in favoring the would-be rich over poor people.