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By Joyce Appleby / The Bulletin
November 13, 2011
We hear a great deal these days about the top 1 percent and the bottom 99 percent in the American economic pyramid. But we also need to consider the 11 percent.
From 1776 to the present, the bottom 60 percent of the U.S. population, as University of Southern California historian Carole Shammas....