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Americans Think the Middle Class Is Shrinking
The recession appears to have convinced many that they will never escape the working class.
The experts tell us inequality is increasing and the middle class is in decline. A new poll shows that ordinary Americans feel that way, too. According to the results of a Gallup survey released this week, just slightly more than half of Americans identified themselves as middle class (upper-middle and middle class in Gallup’s terminology).
But the trend line is the troubling part, as the chart below shows.