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The share of adults living in middle-class households fell from 61% in 1971 to 50% in 2021, while the shares of upper and lower grew. On the transformation of the US middle class over the past five decades from the Pew Research Center.🗃️ www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
May 7, 2025, 1:44 PM
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