Our Focus Series "Rediscovering the Middle Class" is looking at what it means to be middle class today and asking whether longstanding assumptions about education, opportunity, and stability still hold up in 2015.
In this installment, WGBH News reporter Adam Reilly went to Swampscott and Lynn, Mass., to see how the significance of geography and how perceptions of class can change radically in the span of just a few feet.
Paul Halloran, the managing editor of Lynn’s Daily Item newspaper and a Lynn resident himself, discussed what the growing gulf between Lynn and Swampscott says about class perceptions.
