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Author Hedrick Smith on America's Lost Middle Class

KCRW on September 10, 2012 21:47

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    On today's show, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times veteran Hedrick Smith, whose latest book is "Who Stole the American Dream?" said the median household income in America today is $49,000. And that's counting two earners. "A lot of people that consider themselves middle class ... think of middle class being somewhere around $70,000," he said. "No, it's much lower than that."

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