Canada’s Middle Class Richer Than US For First Time

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A typical middle class neighborhood.  Pic courtesy of Shutterstock.
A typical middle class neighborhood. Pic courtesy of Shutterstock.

Once upon a time America was the richest nation in the world, bar none, with the richest middle class in the world.  Well, those days are done, as that once revered status now belongs to Canada, which caught up to America in 2010 with a median after-tax income of $75,000 for a family of four, is the new No. 1, reports the New York Times.

“The idea that the median American has so much more income than the middle class in all other parts of the world is not true these days,” says Harvard economist Lawrence Katz. “In 1960, we were massively richer than anyone else. In 1980, we were richer. In the 1990s, we were still richer.” No more, however, despite the fact that the US is still the richest large country overall. Rising income inequality takes the blame there.

The US middle class still leads countries in Europe, but the gap has narrowed substantially of late in most nations. Among poor people—those in the 20th percentile of income distribution—it’s even worse. The US trails badly in comparison to Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland, or the Netherlands, a reversal from 35 years ago.

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Timmy Mahoney
9 years ago

This comes as no shock. Where there were once fine homes in quiet neighborhoods there are gunshots and gangbangers. America just isn’t quite the place it once was.

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