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OnlineEditor@theweek.com (Ryan Cooper), The Week
Wed, 10/21/2015 - 2:43am

In America, being middle-class is certainly better than being poor. But it could be better — and social democracy offers the way. Matt Bruenig has calculated that for people in the bottom half of the income distribution, America does objectively worse than the Nordic nations. But what about the upper half — people from the median income on upward, 1 percenters excluded?

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