Affordability is a Vanishing Promise for the Middle Class

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

Affordability is a crisis that keeps millions of us awake at night. It is not, as President Donald Trump claims, a word Democrats “made up.” As more and more families struggle to pay their bills, we need policy solutions, not partisan deflections.

By most accounts, my family is middle class. I have a leadership position at a non-profit organization, a modest house with a mortgage, student loans, and a car. But like countless other working Americans, I’m struggling to afford the basics.