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"Although economic growth in the United States continues to be as strong as in many other countries, or stronger, a small percentage of American households is fully benefiting from it. Median income in Canada pulled into a tie with median United States income in 2010 and has most likely surpassed it since then. Median incomes in Western European countries still trail those in the United States, but the gap in several - including Britain, the Netherlands and Sweden - is much smaller than it was a decade ago." This article talks about how America's middle class has slowly gone down economically. This has been so bad that the poor in Europe, are richer than the poor in America. The idea of everyone having money is great but it is very difficult to accomplish.

While the average income of the population has remained largely unchanged, those receiving incomes in the top 5% have experienced a steady climb in their wages. One possible cause of this increased gap that this article mentions is increased globalization, which, according to the article, has befitted American corporations at the expense of lower and middle class workers by providing access to cheaper unskilled labor. In the video, is explains that some people have the ability to go to college, but their parents cannot afford it because of jobs like working at Walmart. A lot of the upper class can afford education and their needs, but the most of the time, the middle class can't because they don't have well paying jobs.