Today's New York Times has an article on the loss of the middle class in major cities:
The Brookings study, which defined moderate-income families as those with incomes between 80 and 120 percent of the median for each area, found that the percentage of middle-income neighborhoods in the 100 largest metropolitan areas had dropped to 41 percent from 58 percent between 1970 and 2000. Only 23 percent of central city neighborhoods in 12 large metropolitan areas were middle income, down from 45 percent in 1970.
Of course, my immediate reaction was that this is old news, coming as it does several days after this Making Light discussion-- I already know that it sucks to try to be middle-class in Manhattan. Typical mainstream media, lagging behind the blogs. Or something.
On an unrelated note, the Times also has an interesting article on serious video games. This has also probably been discussed at length by some blogger, but I'm too lazy to try to find it. Let's just assume that blogs got to it first, and get on with our lives.