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Ten years later, the promises of a decrease in the US trade deficit and, above all, a wave of

industrial job creation have not been kept. This phenomenon, compounded by the so-called
subprime crisis in 2008, in which millions of American workers lost their jobs, is accompanied
throughout the 2000s by a decline in median household income. Between 1999 and 2015,
the constant dollar income of half of American households fell from $58,000 to $5,500.

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