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Bart Stupak: “The top 20 percent went up 13 percent. In Michigan it was 12.7, rounded off 13 percent. The middle class, the third…”

On the recordMarch 3, 1998
The top 20 percent went up 13 percent. In Michigan it was 12.7, rounded off 13 percent. The middle class, the third percentile, the third level, the middle one here, during that same 6-year period, from '90 to '96, they lost 2 percent. So they went down 2 percent. And the bottom 20 percent, or the lowest economic class that they surveyed, actually lost about 20 percent over the same period of time. So we can see the rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer, and the poor middle class here that we all relate to and speak of, actually lost 2 percent in our home State of Michigan.
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Discussing economic disparities in Michigan from 1990 to 1996.

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