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Caitlyn Moorhead

6 Reasons the Poor Stay Poor and the Middle Class Doesn’t Get Richer

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Millions of Americans are so used to feeling broke that they may not look into the various factors that cause this. You may feel as though you can’t rise out of poverty or move out of the middle class and wonder: Why is it so much harder to climb the ranks that the oligarchs and other wealthy people have done before?

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