This study inquires whether a new structurally dispossessed class is developing in the United States. The new class proposition is derived from social theory and operationalized by two empirical characteristics: not in the labor force (NILF) and family income below poverty. The primary data source is the Current Population Survey over the years from 1968 to 2018, and threshold demographic criteria for class development is specified as increasing size and diversity. Because evidence is found to support the latter criterion but not the former, the proposition that a new class is developing is partially rejected. The analysis finds that new social components are joining the NILF/impoverished including men, Hispanics, college graduates, and young adults. Second, that the NILF/impoverished are politically active in terms of electoral participation, and no more likely than the total electorate to have voted for a populist Presidential candidate in 2016. NILF/impoverished recipiency of state transfers varies over time, increasing through the Great Recession, then receding. The implications of the investigation are discussed in terms of the likelihood that the NILF/impoverished will generate new forms of political opposition to the rule of capital.

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美国是否正在发展一个新的结构性被剥夺阶级？

这项研究调查了美国是否正在发展一个新的结构性被剥夺阶级。新的阶级命题源自社会理论，并通过两个经验特征进行操作：不在劳动力中（NILF）和贫困以下的家庭收入。主要数据来源是从 1968 年到 2018 年的当前人口调查，阶级发展的阈值人口标准被指定为增加规模和多样性。因为有证据支持后一标准而不是前一标准，所以部分拒绝了新类别正在发展的命题。分析发现，新的社会成分正在加入 NILF/贫困人口，包括男性、西班牙裔、大学毕业生和年轻人。其次，NILF/贫困者在选举参与方面在政治上很活跃，2016 年投票给民粹主义总统候选人的选民总数的可能性不大。 NILF/贫困国家转移的接受程度随着时间的推移而变化，在大衰退期间增加，然后逐渐消退。调查的影响是根据 NILF/贫困者将产生新形式的政治反对资本统治的可能性来讨论的。