In Case You Missed This... Middle Class Suffered ‘Worst Decade In Modern History’ - ThinkProgress

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5. did they say where the other 10% went?

If the middle class got smaller by 10% "the number of Americans who fit into that category shrunk from 61 percent in 1971 to just 51 percent in 2011." Then where did that 10% go? Up? Or down?

That answer affects the "share of income" chart that they show. If the wealthy class got bigger and the middle class smaller, then the trend of their aggregate income is not that shocking or outrageous.

My charts talk about the same size group, although I wish I had data going back to 1966 or even just 1976, because it was Reagan who started the ball rolling and even 1986 is sorta post-Reagan. http://www.koch2congress.com/5.html