All of these combined to make our middle class the driving force of our economy by giving middle-class families the ability to spend their hard-earned rising paychecks without taking on huge debt.
Tom Harkin: “All of these combined to make our middle class the driving force of our economy by giving middle-class families the…”
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Harkin describes how the middle class historically fueled economic growth.
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