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1. time.com › 6171292How a Great Economy Left the Middle Class Behind | TIME

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   Apr 28, 2022 · Families are paying $3,500 more this year for the basic set of goods and services that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) follows than they did last year. Average hourly earnings, by contrast, are ...

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3. www.pewresearch.org › race-and-ethnicity › 2024/05/31The State of the American Middle Class - Pew Research Center

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   May 31, 2024 · The share of overall income held by lower-income households edged down from 10% in 1970 to 8% in 2022. This happened even though the share of people living in lower-income households increased over this period. The share of people in the U.S. middle class varied from 46% to 55% across racial and ethnic groups in 2022.

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4. finance.yahoo.com › news › 5-financial-disadvantages5 Financial Disadvantages of Being Stuck in the Middle Class

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   Nov 30, 2023 · According to the most recent data from the Pew Research Center, roughly 50% of Americans fall into the middle class. That percentage has been falling for the past five decades, with more Americans...

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5. www.theatlantic.com › 2020 › 08I Wanted to Know How to Rebuild the Middle Class. Here’s What ...

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   Aug 16, 2020 · From the people and the cutting-edge research, I have built an understanding of what actually made the middle class boom after World War II, and what it will take to rebuild it from our pandemic ...

6. www.vox.com › the-goods › 22166381America’s middle class doesn’t really exist - Vox

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   Dec 15, 2020 · Pre-pandemic, middle-class Americans modeled the belief that everything was fine. Unemployment was low; consumer confidence was high; the housing market had “recovered.”. In 2019, 95 percent ...

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7. www.pewresearch.org › short-reads › 2022/04/20How the American middle class has changed in the past five ...

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   Apr 20, 2022 · The median income for lower-income households grew more slowly than that of middle-class households, increasing from $20,604 in 1970 to $29,963 in 2020, or 45%. The rise in income from 1970 to 2020 was steepest for upper-income households. Their median income increased 69% during that timespan, from $130,008 to $219,572.

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   Are Americans getting stuck in the middle class?

   • But lately, members of the middle class have also been getting stuck: Between 1996 and 2006, they were 25 percent likelier to stay where they were, compared with the middle class in the 1976 to '86 period. Americans feel the change.

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   How has the middle class changed since 1970?

   • The share of aggregate U.S. household income held by the middle class has fallen steadily since 1970. The widening of the income gap and the shrinking of the middle class has led to a steady decrease in the share of U.S. aggregate income held by middle-class households.

   How the American middle class has changed in the past five decades

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   Is the middle class hollowed out?

   • The stability that once characterized the middle class, that made it such a coveted and aspirational echelon of American existence, has been hollowed out. It’s difficult to tell if someone’s part of the hollow middle class because they’re still performing all the external markers of middle-classness.

   America’s middle class doesn’t really exist - Vox

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   Is the middle class stuck between a rock and a hard place?

   • When it comes to the tax code, the middle class is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Lower-income individuals can take advantage of various tax breaks and credits that don’t apply to the middle class, while upper-class Americans have the means to avoid taxes through various exemptions and deductions.

   5 Financial Disadvantages of Being Stuck in the Middle Class

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   What percentage of Americans are middle class?

   • The share of people in the U.S. middle class varied from 46% to 55% across racial and ethnic groups in 2022. Black and Hispanic Americans, Native Hawaiians or Pacific Islanders, and American Indians or Alaska Natives were more likely than others to be in lower-income households.

   The State of the American Middle Class - Pew Research Center

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   How did the middle class expand?

   • When the middle class first began to expand in the United States in the mid-20th century, it did so in large part through the work of unions, which advocated for salaries and benefits that allowed millions of workers to afford a down payment and save for the future.

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9. www.theatlantic.com › business › archive'I'm Working Really Hard, but I'm Not Getting Ahead': The New ...

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   Sep 27, 2012 · But lately, members of the middle class have also been getting stuck: Between 1996 and 2006, they were 25 percent likelier to stay where they were, compared with the middle class in the 1976 to ...