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

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What's the Average Wealth of the American Middle Class?

In March of this year, the average wealth of those 100 million people in that middle class topped out at around $393,000. That's $120,000 more than it was in January of 2017 when President Trump came into office. And today, according to these economists at the University of California, Berkeley and their calculations, the American middle class is worth about $25,000 less than it was earlier this year.

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