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Is the middle class going extinct?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The Average Income in the United States in 2012

The average income in the United States was $51,017 in 2012. That's pretty high but it's not the highest or lowest of all nations. The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the poorest countries in the world by this metric. But they also have a wealth of resources and suffer from "the resource curse"

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