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Middle-class consumer demand is a much greater driver of business expansion than wealth at the top. The basic reasoning is simple: a successful business will only hire more workers and increase production when people are able to buy what the business wants to sell. That demand won’t continue if the average American can’t obtain the skills, opportunities and, ultimately, good wages to keep up this ‘virtuous cycle.’
-Gene Perry, policy analyst with Oklahoma Policy Institute
