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    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/2…
    The American middle class, long the most affluent in the world, has lost that distinction.

    Median per capita income was $18,700 in the United States in 2010 (which translates to about $75,000 for a family of four after taxes), up 20 percent since 1980 but virtually unchanged since 2000, after adjusting for inflation. The same measure, by comparison, rose about 20 percent in Britain between 2000 and 2010 and 14 percent in the Netherlands. Median income also rose 20 percent in Canada between 2000 and 2010, to the equivalent of $18,700.

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    • always takes them a little bit to catch up to where the population that they shun are.
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