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The sad state of America's middle class, in 6 charts

20 January 2015

The middle-class share of the U.S. wealth pie roughly doubled between the Great Depression and the early 1980s. But since then, the middle-class share has shrunk back to its lowest level since 1947, according to a study last October by Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley, and Gabriel Zucman of the London School of Economics.

This article was published by The Huffington Post on January 20, 2015
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Gabriel Zucman webpage
Productivity and Innovation Programme webpage

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