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Senior Fellow & Director, Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility @AEICosm. Previously Exec Dir, Joint Economic Committee. Beatles fanatic. Personal account
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Scott Winship Discusses American Wealth Growth and the Discrepancy Between Gloomy Consumer Sentiment and Actual Financial Growth.

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By Scott Winship, John Batchelor Verified
| Political Economy with Jim Pethokoukis
Scott Winship discusses American wealth growth, exemplified by the SpaceX IPO making thousands of employees millionaires. He argues the middle class is not “hollowing out” negatively; rather, it is shrinking because more families are ascending into a booming upper-middle class, with wealth levels higher than ever recorded. Scott Winship explains the discrepancy between gloomy consumer sentiment and actual financial growth. Despite inflation concerns and high grocery prices, real wages are up.
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upward mobility Archives

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By Scott Winship, Stephen Rose
| Political Economy with Jim Pethokoukis
Op-Ed Civitas Outlook Earlier this year, our report, “The Middle Class Is Shrinking Because of a Booming Upper-Middle Class,” argued that the narrative of a “hollowed-out middle class” rests on counterintuitive class definitions and misinforms about economic deterioration. If... BY Scott Winship + Stephen J. Rose ON 15 Jun 26
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The Shrinking Middle Class and Booming Upper-Middle Class: The Plot Thickens

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By Scott Winship, Stephen Rose
| Political Economy with Jim Pethokoukis
Earlier this year, our report, “The Middle Class Is Shrinking Because of a Booming Upper-Middle Class,” argued that the narrative of a “hollowed-out middle class” rests on counterintuitive class definitions and misinforms about economic deterioration. If you define the middle class such that doubling everyone’s income makes it no easier to enter the middle class, then you can get a hollowed-out middle class if income growth is slower for poorer families than for the typical family.
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