Vanishing Mid-Wage Jobs Are Choking the Life Out of the Middle Class

The recession that followed the financial crisis has taken its toll on every part of the economy, but it has hit employment especially hard -- causing the unemployment rate to skyrocket to 10% in 2009 from 4.6% just two years earlier.

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