"Meanwhile, nearly half of the country had no savings or investments at all. The wages they made in an industrial economy whose rules were stacked against them were barely enough to keep afloat. As a result, a full eleven million of the twelve million households in America — a full 92% of the country — lived below the poverty line."
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