Reply #22: Frankly, I think it's all about unions....When unions were strong in this

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country, it truly was the "land of opportunity".

Yes, of course, there were some racial barriers, but even

those were powerfully addressed during the Sixties,

when unions still strong.

The Labor Movement brought MILLIONS of Americans,

my family included, out of poverty and into

the "middle class", which I might define now

as making about fifty thousand a year, minimum

for a family of four in an "average" city.