California Dream Project: Despite state’s immense wealth, middle class in decline

Editor’s note: This is the latest installment of the California Dream Project, an occasional series focusing on the status of the Golden State as a pivotal election nears. 
By Amita Sharma, KPBSCalifornia’s lush coastline, balmy climate and post World War II economic promise made it an easy sell as America’s middle class paradise in the 1950s.Joel Kotkin, a presidential fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange
“The California Dream of two or three gene