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On the recordApril 15, 2015
We are going to want to work with you to really flesh out those numbers, because my understanding is the number of middle-class households in the developing world by 2025 is going to double, and that would bring the global middle class to more than a billion households.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden emphasizes the growth of the global middle class impacting trade.

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