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Why do many researchers maintain that America's middle class has been shrinking?A) the global shrinkage of the middle class
B) the failing economy
C) the geographic shift from metropolitans to the suburbs
D) some members are moving upstream to upper-middle class while others are slipping backward to the working class
E) the expansion of educational opportunity
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