By Robert Borosage / Campaign for America's Future
The 1 percent continue to capture virtually all of the income growth in the country, while the average incomes of the 99 percent continue to fall.
And Americans know it. In a January Pew poll, 92 percent report that their incomes are sinking or treading water. This Occupy reality increasingly sets the frame for our political debate, with leaders of both parties adopting populist rhetoric, acknowledging that making this economy work for working people – the sinking “middle class” – is the central question of our day.
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