THE SHRINKING AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS

Are you living “the American Dream”?  If so, you should consider yourself to be very fortunate, because most Americans are not.

  Once upon a time, the United States had the largest and most prosperous middle class in the history of the world, but now the middle class makes up a minority of the population, 51 percent of all American workers make less than $30,000 a year, and poverty is growing rapidly.