Survey: Middle Class Gloomy Over Finances
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WASHINGTON — Offering the gloomiest assessment of personal economic progress in close to half a century, a new survey has found that most middle-class Americans think they have not made economic progress over the past five years, as their incomes have stagnated and they have increasingly borrowed money to finance their lifestyles.
