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The Middle Class Crush Zone
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The Middle Class Crush Zone

How the planetary crisis is making the slippery slopes of middle class progress steeper.
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Friends—

The middle class ain’t what it used to be.

A recent OECD report, Under Pressure: The Squeezed Middle Class, tells us that,

“[O]ver the past 30 years, middle-income households have experienced dismal income growth or even stagnation in some countries. This has fueled perceptions that the current socio-economic s…

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