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    Tabitha Waugh is a 30-year old registered nurse working on the cancer ward of a hospital in Huntington, West Virginia. Despite the stresses of her 12-hour shift, her $27 per hour wage provides a comfortable life for her family of four, including a three-bedroom home and activities for her two children. Waugh exemplifies how health care jobs have become a major part of the modern middle class, with 4.5 million health care jobs now paying between $40,000 to $80,000 annually, compared to just 1.4 million in 1980. Registered nurses in particular have seen their median salary increase by 55% since the 1980s, making it one of the largest middle-income

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    Tabitha Waugh is a 30-year old registered nurse working on the cancer ward of a hospital in Huntington, West Virginia. Despite the stresses of her 12-hour shift, her $27 per hour wage provides a comfortable life for her family of four, including a three-bedroom home and activities for her two children. Waugh exemplifies how health care jobs have become a major part of the modern middle class, with 4.5 million health care jobs now paying between $40,000 to $80,000 annually, compared to just 1.4 million in 1980. Registered nurses in particular have seen their median salary increase by 55% since the 1980s, making it one of the largest middle-income

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    Tabitha Waugh is a 30-year old registered nurse working on the cancer ward of a hospital in Huntington, West Virginia. Despite the stresses of her 12-hour shift, her $27 per hour wage provides a comfortable life for her family of four, including a three-bedroom home and activities for her two children. Waugh exemplifies how health care jobs have become a major part of the modern middle class, with 4.5 million health care jobs now paying between $40,000 to $80,000 annually, compared to just 1.4 million in 1980. Registered nurses in particular have seen their median salary increase by 55% since the 1980s, making it one of the largest middle-income

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    HUNTINGTON, W.Va. For Tabitha Waugh, it was another typical day of chaos on the sixthfloor cancer ward.

    The fire alarm was blaring for the second time that afternoon, prompting patients to stumble out
    of their rooms. One confused elderly man approached Ms. Waugh, a registered nurse at St.
    Marys Medical Center here, but she had no time to console him. An aide was shouting from
    another room, where a patient sat dazed on the edge of his bed, blood pooling on the floor from
    the IV he had yanked from his vein.
    Hey, big guy, can you lay back in bed? she asked, as she cleaned the patient before inserting a
    new line. He winced. Hold my hand, O.K.? she said.
    Ms. Waugh, who is 30 and the main breadwinner in her family of four, still had three hours to go
    before the end of a 12-hour shift. But despite the stresses and constant demands, all the hard
    work was paying off.
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    Her wage of nearly $27 an hour provides for a comfortable life that includes a three-bedroom
    home, a pickup truck and a new sport utility vehicle, tumbling classes for her 3-year-old, Piper,
    and dozens of brightly colored Thomas the Tank Engine cars heaped under the double bed of her
    6-year-old, Collin.
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    A Shifting Middle
    Articles in this series focus on the reshaping of the American economy and its effects on the
    workforce and the middle class.

    The daughter of a teachers aide and a gas station manager, Ms. Waugh, like many other hardworking and often overlooked Americans, has secured a spot in a profoundly transformed middle
    class. While the group continues to include large numbers of people sitting at desks, far fewer
    middle-income workers of the 21st century are donning overalls. Instead, reflecting the biggest
    change in recent years, millions more are in scrubs.
    We used to think about the men going out with their lunch bucket to their factory, and those
    were good jobs, said Jane Waldfogel, a professor at Columbia University who studies work and
    family issues. Whats the corresponding job today? Its in the health care sector.
    In 1980, 1.4 million jobs in health care paid a middle-class wage: $40,000 to $80,000 a year in
    todays money. Now, the figure is 4.5 million.
    The pay of registered nurses now the third-largest middle-income occupation and one that
    continues to be overwhelmingly female has risen strongly along with the increasing demands
    of the job. The median salary of $61,000 a year in 2012 was 55 percent greater, adjusted for
    inflation, than it was three decades earlier.
    And it was about $9,000 more than the shriveled wages of, say, a phone company repairman,
    who would have been more likely to head a middle-class family in the 1980s. Back then, more
    than a quarter of middle-income jobs were in manufacturing, a sector long dominated by men.
    Today, it is just 13 percent.
    As the job market has shifted, women, in general, have more skillfully negotiated the twists and
    turns of the new economy, rushing to secure jobs in health care and other industries that demand
    more education and training. Men, by contrast, have been less successful at keeping up.
    In many working- and middle-class households, women now earn the bigger paycheck, work
    longer hours and have greater opportunities for career advancement. As a result, millions of
    American families are being reconfigured along with the economy.
    The culture still has traditional attitudes about who does what, who brings home the bacon and
    who scrambles the eggs, said Isabel Sawhill, co-director of the Center on Children and Families
    at the Brookings Institution. The economy is now out of sync with the culture, and I think thats
    creating tensions within marriage.

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