Who’s Still Poor? Who’s Made It To Middle Income? Pew Has New Data

Who’s Still Poor? Who’s Made It To Middle Income? Pew Has New Data

By Jason Beaubien

The global middle class is growing … but slowly. (A lot of the credit goes to China.) And more than 70 percent of the world’s population still falls below what would be considered “middle” income.

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Via: http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/07/09/421156878/whos-still-poor-whos-made-it-to-middle-income-pew-has-new-data?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=world

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