What’s the Solution to Middle-Class Stagnation? [TheAtlantic.com]

Samantha Sangenito 3/10/164:00 AM

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One of the underlying themes of the tumultuous presidential election is that middle-class Americans feel like they’re stuck in a rut.

Indeed, U.S. workers’ share of national income has been shrinkingsince the late 1990s (meaning that more of it than ever is going to the top 1 percent), and average annual income growth in the United States for the “bottom” 90 percent has been negative for the last two decades. What can America do to save its middle class?

[For more of this story, written by Derek Thompson, go to http://www.theatlantic.com/bus...s-stagnation/472194/]

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