The American middle class is disappearing

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The American middle class is disappearing

The United States are drifting further apart: A new study by the Pew Institute shows that the middle class is shrinking in the cities – while the upper and the lower classes grow. The plays in the election campaign, a role.

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Stagnant wages, rising costs: The middle class in the United States in almost all major cities and Metropolitan regions on the retreat. In the years 2000 to 2014, this is according to a survey by the Pew Institute in Washington, for nine out of the ten examined regions. The study defines “middle class” as households whose income is at least equivalent to two-thirds and not more than Twice the average nationwide income. This includes the wide range of 42,000 to 125,000 US dollars per year.

In a number of regions of the medium decreased layer, while at the same time the upper and lower layer increased. In other areas, only the top rose layer, in others only the bottom. Pew among 229 regions examined. In almost a quarter of the middle class is not the majority – in the year 2000, this was only in ten percent of the regions of the case.

Social Polarisation

The long-term survey, according to the Pew as evidence that the drifting Apart of American society continues. In relation to the middle class you speak of a country-wide descent, said. “The far-reaching Erosion of the middle class is against the Background of a decrease in the household income in most Metropolitan regions of the USA”, – stated in the study.

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Across the country, the middle income would have been eight percent lower than the 1999 value. Pew: “A reminder that the economy needs to recover still from the effects of the great recession of 2007-2009.”

Values such as these can play critics of the economic policies of the government of Barack Obama in the hands. They argue that, despite growth and outwardly stable labour market figures overall, too many people to come and ask little positive effects. The theme also plays in the presidential campaign a major role.

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In a previous survey, the Pew Institute had found a few months ago that the middle layer forms in the United States for the first time since 1971, the majority of the society. It was 2014 at 49.9 percent. As reasons for stagnant wages, rising costs and a serious increase in apply to richer households.

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