Showing posts with label rigged economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rigged economy. Show all posts

Monday, July 11, 2016

And yet, 71% think the economy is "rigged"

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No wonder the "rigged economy" has become one of the biggest talking points on the 2016 campaign trail. Bernie Sanders may have started it, but Donald Trump now uses that exact term and Hillary Clinton talks often about how she'll help those "left behind."

Americans have good reason to think this way. The typical middle class family is earning about the same amount of money -- just under $54,000 -- as they did in 1996, once you adjust for inflation.