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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Thursday, February 21st. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker.

In several appearances this week, President Obama reiterated what he said in his inaugural address last month about inequality and the plight of the

middle class.

For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few

do very well in a growing many barely make it.

We believe that America's prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class.

We know that America thrives when every person can find independence and pride in their work.

When the wages of honest labor liberate families from the brink of hardship.

But the middle class is not rising, and many families are having an increasingly hard time making ends meet.

George Packer and James Surawicki are here to talk about why and what can be done about it.

George, you've got a book coming out in May about this problem, and you wrote a bit this week

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