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The wage gap has continued to widen in the United States over the past few decades. According to businessinsider.com, “As the country’s richest get even richer and the share of people below the porter line increases, America’s middle class has been gradually disappearing.” In recent surveys it shows that average American’s have a wage increase of $10,000 between the ages 30 and 39, where as the top one percent has their wages increase from $173,000 to $419,000.

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