4 opinion March 11, 2016 Future of the middle class looks bleak What used to consist of most of the population is on a steady decline in the United States According to CNN, the middle class middle class into the ground of America is dying. The middle class no The 10 richest people in the U.S. longer consists of 50% of the population are: Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Larry and 1% of America’s people are making Ellison, Jeff Bezos, Charles Koch, 99% of the country’s wealth. Koch, Mark Zuckerberg, Mike Bloom- Of the nearly 320 million people in berg, Jim Walton and Larry Page. the U.S., 190 million people are part of Combined, these men are worth the middle class. $421.8 billion. That amount is more According to socialistworker.org, the than the rest of Americans will make in upper class oppresses the middle class in their entire lifetimes. It’s a shame that a many different ways through the use of mere 10 or so people are oppressing 320 social status discrimination, exploitation million people. at work, and alienation. It’s time for things to change or the The middle class has to work harder American middle class will die and the and longer than ever before while the up- American Dream along with it. per class does nothing. In the 1970s the income of the middle class was very high and people were living the American By Bud Grant, Dream. But according to socialistworker. Roar Staff Writer org, things have changed as big corpora- tions and rich people have driven the

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Rachel Gross, Matt Biggs, Salina Montoya, junior sophomore Lucas Nguyen, senior senior “No, it’s too dif- “Yes, I would join “I wouldn’t join “I would join ficult to please politics because politics because politics to change everyone, there’s they can share their Trump is building the world.” walls and too much to worry point of view to corrupting America.” about.” America.” Roars and Snores Republican Tainted water ‘Fuller House’ Gas prices candidates as in Michigan; now on Netflix, expected to stay immature as when will the renewed for under $3 this middle governor there 2nd season summer schoolers resign?

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