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The hollow centre.(middle class struggling in Canada)
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Middle class incomes are stagnant. If inflation is factored in, middle class incomes have hardly budged since the late 1970s. Between 1995 and 1997, average family incomes actually declined by about $200
You are middle class if you earn between 75% and 150% of the average wage. That's the definition government statisticians use. And, by that definition 39% of Canadians belonged to the middle class in 1967. Fast forward three decades, and we find 32% of our population is now classified as middle class.
That means that approximately two million Canadians who used to be ...
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