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The second installment looking at the pressures of the middle class

 

TODAY'S STORY ABOUT THE COST OF HIGHER EDUCATION is the second installment in the Akron Beacon Journal's look this year at the pressures on the middle class.

The first installment appeared on March 16 and is available on the newspaper's Web site, http://www.ohio.com.

Others will appear throughout the year as we examine employment, housing, health care, retirement and the future of the diminishing middle class.

This project is an outgrowth of a study by David Knox, the Beacon Journal's specialist in computer research. In the first half of 2007, he participated in a Kiplinger Fellowship at Ohio State University, where he used the horsepower of university computers to analyze 51 million records spanning five decades of Census Bureau data, prepared by the University of Minnesota's Population Center.

In September 2007, the Beacon Journal published his findings, showing that successive generations of Americans are earning less than their parents.

The Web version of the story included an interactive database, allowing readers to compare their own incomes with national statistics. That project is available at http://www.ohio.com/hottopic/10675396.html.

After publication of that project, the Beacon Journal invited readers to participate in a series of focus groups, which were held in late October. The purpose was to listen to citizens discuss how they related to the trends in Knox's finding.

The seven sessions were facilitated by Alice Rodgers of Jemez Pueblo, N.M. Formerly a resident of Stark County, she facilitated many discussions for the newspaper over a 25-year period, including the Beacon Journal's examination of race relations in 1993, which resulted in the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

Out of those focus groups arose the several topics that will be examined prior to the 2008 presidential election.

Knox and Beacon Journal columnist David Giffels are the reporters on this project. Photographer Ed Suba Jr. and artist Deborah Kauffman Barry prepared the photos, illustrations and graphics for today's installment.
The editors

 

TODAY'S STORY ABOUT THE COST OF HIGHER EDUCATION is the second installment in the Akron Beacon Journal's look this year at the pressures on the middle class.

The first installment appeared on March 16 and is available on the newspaper's Web site, http://www.ohio.com.

Others will appear throughout the year as we examine employment, housing, health care, retirement and the future of the diminishing middle class.

This project is an outgrowth of a study by David Knox, the Beacon Journal's specialist in computer research. In the first half of 2007, he participated in a Kiplinger Fellowship at Ohio State University, where he used the horsepower of university computers to analyze 51 million records spanning five decades of Census Bureau data, prepared by the University of Minnesota's Population Center.

In September 2007, the Beacon Journal published his findings, showing that successive generations of Americans are earning less than their parents.

The Web version of the story included an interactive database, allowing readers to compare their own incomes with national statistics. That project is available at http://www.ohio.com/hottopic/10675396.html.

After publication of that project, the Beacon Journal invited readers to participate in a series of focus groups, which were held in late October. The purpose was to listen to citizens discuss how they related to the trends in Knox's finding.

The seven sessions were facilitated by Alice Rodgers of Jemez Pueblo, N.M. Formerly a resident of Stark County, she facilitated many discussions for the newspaper over a 25-year period, including the Beacon Journal's examination of race relations in 1993, which resulted in the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

Out of those focus groups arose the several topics that will be examined prior to the 2008 presidential election.

Knox and Beacon Journal columnist David Giffels are the reporters on this project. Photographer Ed Suba Jr. and artist Deborah Kauffman Barry prepared the photos, illustrations and graphics for today's installment.
The editors



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