Oh, middle class suburbia! We’ll ignore, for the sake of getting through with this, the fact that this report manages to separate Blacks and Latinos as two mutually-exclusive groups of people, and focus on how a study by the policy center Demos and the Institute for Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University shows Latinos in the U.S. are in danger of slipping out of the middle class like a bored housewife slipping out of a pair of “Juicy” velour sweatpants:

Fewer than one in five Latino families (18 percent) are securely in the middle class. More than twice as many Latino (41 percent) families are in danger of slipping out of the middle class.

Dreadful. So what’s a struggling, middle class Latino to do? Well, not a lot, concludes the report, if political candidates continues to ignore Middle Class minorities (ahem). We can’t help but think, however, whether or not all races and ethnic groups in the U.S. might currently be experiencing some level of slippage due to the recession. No?

Many African-American and Latino Families in Danger of Falling Out of Middle Class, According To New Report [Market Watch]