Professor Mechele Dickerson

Jan. 12, 2026

The Middle Class New Deal. Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream. Talking with Professor A. Mechele Dickerson.

The middle class in America has lost ground with stagnant wages, costly housing, declining retirement benefits while education and health costs soar. Congress needs to buttress the economic agenda that created the middle class in the 1940s and 50s.