Is There (Middle Class) Life After Maytag?
By NEWTON, Iowa New York Times August 26, 2007 THE last of the Maytag factories that lifted so many people into the middle class here will close on Oct. 26. Guy Winchell and his wife, Lisa, will lose their jobs that day. Their combined income of $43 an hour will disappear and, soon after, so will their health insurance. Most of the pensions they would have received will also be gone. The Winchells are still in their 40s. They can retrain or start a business, choices promoted by city leaders in a campaign to reinvent Newton without its biggest employer. But as they ponder their futures, the Winchells are uncertain about how to deal with a lower standard of living. Im not wanting to go waitress, said Mrs. Winchell, who, at 41, drives a forklift and earns $19 an hour, but I can do what I have to to make money. Mr. Winchell, 46, having earned $24 an hour as a skilled electrician, seems paralyzed by the disappearance of his employer. He imagines that there is work for electricians in centra
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