Health costs have been rising for middle class families.Nearly one in five Americans cannot afford health insurance.(1)_________________________________________.United Health Group profits up 38 percent this quarter.The company's CEO William is leaving with a reported 1.1-billion-dollar retirement pension.Even he admitted reports of a stock option scandal.The gap between the wealthy and the working is expanding.And it has been the greatest transfer of wealth from the middle class to the elite class which we have ever seen in our history.(2)_____________________________________.IBM reported a 47% jump in quarterly profits and layoffs of 400 US engineers.The Dow Johns Index jumped above the 12 000 threshold for the first time.But for middle class workers, job growth is slow,the housing market cooling and paychecks shrinking.We've always viewed ourselves as a country that provides upward mobility to everyone who works hard and that,in America, you can achieve the middle class dream, if you do so.(3)______________________________________________. According to the AFL-CIO,the average CEO, not the CEO at the top,but the average chief executive officer makes 431 times the salary of a medium worker in the United States.
contract that with health insurance companies in great finace ship.
corperators are handing out profit to their shareholders and pinslate* to their employees.
and right now, the middle classes not doing very well, higher earnings for the corparate class, less achievety* for the middle class
contrast that with health insurance companies in great financial shape
coporations are handing out profits to their share holders and pink slips to their American employees
and right now the middle class is not doing very well. higher earnings for the corporate class, less security for the middle class
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