Stagnating middle incomes in the US date back to the mid-1970s.
美国中产阶级收入的停滞开始于十九世纪七十年代中期。
By creating a strong middle class and raising incomes, we have given our citizens a powerful stake in their society.
通过夯实中产阶级和提高工资收入，我们已经给予人民在社会中很大的奖励。
This means a larger percentage tax reduction for families with smaller taxable incomes, and specifically helps families in the middle income levels.
对于税前收入较低的家庭，这意味着更高的减税比率，这对中等收入水平的家庭帮助尤大。
And, sure enough, every week brings a flood of complaints in the media about the rich getting richer while the incomes of the middle class stagnate or fall.
而且，不出所料的是，媒体上每周都有大量的牢骚，抱怨有钱人越来越有钱而中产阶级的收入没有增加或者减少。
Even as incomes in the middle have gone up, the gap between richest and poorest has gotten wider - both in America and around the world.
不管是在美国还是在世界其他地方，就算中产阶级的收入增加了，贫富之间的差距也变得更大了。
Those in the middle have seen their real incomes fall over the same period, precipitously so in the case of those with only high school qualifications.
处于中间阶层的人同期内实际收入有所下降，而在那些只有高中文凭的人当中，这一趋势尤为明显。
For businesses, the significant increase in per capita urban incomes and middle-income households offers the potential of vibrant new markets to serve.
对于商业来说，城市人均收入的增长以及中产阶级家庭的增加提供了新生的活力市场的潜在需求。
The first group received rent vouchers that enabled them to move to middle-class neighborhoods—defined as having less than 10% of residents with incomes below the poverty threshold.
第一组的成员会有足够的房租补贴，以便将来有机会搬到中层社区去——这组的成员不到10%，他们的收入都在贫困线以下。
But Mr Ravallion's definition excludes people living on slightly above-average incomes in Brazil, who would generally be considered middle-class too.
但是在巴西，拉瓦雷的定义排除了一些略高于在平均收入人，他们一般被认为是中产阶级。
In recent decades certain high-end occupation incomes grew rapidly, while wages for lower-income and middle-class workers stagnated.
近几十年来，高收入和中产阶级的收入停滞不前，结束了当普遍工资低时，他们收入的快速增长时期。
No wonder middle-class spirits, as well as incomes, are sagging.
毫无疑问，中产阶级的精神，以及收入，都正在走下坡路。
When middle-class incomes barely grow while the incomes of the wealthiest rise by a factor of six, how could the tax share of the rich not go up, even if their tax rate is falling?
中产阶级收入几乎没有增长，而富人的收入却增长了6倍，即使他们的税率下下降，他们交纳的税占总税额的份额怎么能会不升高？
But now we need to get middle-class wages and incomes rising too.
但现在我们需要让中产阶级的工资收入也同样上涨。
While middle-class incomes are stagnating, the period since the end of the Great Recession has been a boom time for the very rich and the businesses that cater to them.
一方面中产阶级的收入停滞不前，一方面，自从大衰退之后，这个时期也是富有者极度繁荣的时代，商界都在迎合他们。
It isn't just a reflection of the current economic slowdown and rise in commodity prices: Middle-class incomes have been stagnant for several years.
不能将这一古脑都归咎于当前经济的不景气以及大宗商品价格的上涨：要知道美国中产阶级的收入已经原地踏步好几年了。
Meanwhile, the middle class has remained virtually stagnant, with average incomes growing just 1.3% in nearly eight years.
与此同时，中产阶级的平均收入近八年来只增长了1.3%，实质上处于停滞状态。
This is particularly the case in the Middle East, 1 where increased oil incomes have enabled many countries to call in outsiders to improve local facilities.
中东地区的情况尤为如此。那里增加的石油收入使很多国家能够召集外面的人来改进本地设施。
Even before the current recession hit, the middle class had been hurting from stagnant incomes and declining economic security.
早在本次衰退袭击之前，中产阶级就已经受到收入滞涨和经济安全性下降的伤害。
Low - and middle-income shoppers "are the folks that are really getting squeezed - in the third quarter of this year, real incomes actually declined and the savings rate declined," he said.
他说：“中低收入的顾客属于变得更加拮据的人群，在今年的第三季度，人们的真正收入和储蓄率都下降了。”
And we now have the chance to reverse the decades-long erosion of middle-class jobs and incomes.
我们已经处于逆转几十年来对中产阶级的工作和收入的侵蚀的最佳时机。
And they benefit from tax loopholes that in many cases have people with multimillion-dollar incomes paying lower rates than middle-class families.
他们依然钻着税收政策的漏洞，在许多情况下每年收入数百万美元的人缴纳的税金竟比中产阶级家庭还少。
Scientists, engineers, and executives who had been accustomed to high incomes and upper-middle class status have found themselves unemployed.
那些习惯于挣高工资和享有中上层社会地位的科学家、工程师以及高级职员们发现他们自己已经找不到工作了。
And although their average incomes are still low, their middle classes are expanding fast, creating a vast new market.
而且尽管他们的平均收入还很低，其中产阶级却加速扩展，造就了一个广阔的新市场。
And although their average incomes are still low, their middle classes are expanding fast, creating a vast new market.
而且尽管他们的平均收入还很低，其中产阶级却加速扩展，造就了一个广阔的新市场。
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