The middle class, meanwhile, has given up all the income gains it enjoyed during the tech boom of the late 1990s and the housing boom of the mid 2000s.
This, along with the lack of growth of average hours earnings in recent years, is one of the main reasons why Americans say they aren’t feeling the economic recovery.
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