Nathaniel Parish Flannery: In recent years talk about the Creative Class and the Knowledge Economy has defined many policy discussions about the post-industrial U.S. economy. In your book you pull together a lot of fascinating statistics and argue that the U.S. economy is really a low paid service economy. In 2016 is the U.S. really a working class economy?

Is The New Working Class Being Crushed In The 21st Century U.S. Economy?