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The US Middle Class Is Doing Fine. Why Are They So Worried?

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Is Being Comfortably Middle Class Still Comfortable?

For generations, racial discrimination and the persistent wealth gap have kept many Americans of color on the outside. Bloomberg's senior economics writer Sean Donan has been wrestling with these very questions. There are about 100 million people who we think of as the middle class - somewhere between $45,000 a year and $180,000 ayear per adult.

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