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  ADVERTISEMENT New from  CommonWealth Beacon   It's hard work making it in the middle class     Thirty years ago,  CommonWealth  magazine launched with a cover story that dove into the challenges facing middle-class families in Massachusetts. That piece, titled “ On Heritage Road: In the heart of suburbia, anxieties about the new economy ,” was something of a founding document for our newsroom – an example of the in-depth stories our magazine would be known for on a topic that is central to our organization’s core mission. Three decades later, the central premise of “On Heritage Road” — that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to make it in the middle class — still resonates today as we, as a state and a nation, confront the same questions. Is getting ahead possible anymore? Is it luck or effort? Has the economy changed so much that the best we can do is not slide backward? These are the questions our journalists have spent the last several months investigating. To...