"- - - lower- and middle-class families did not share in the prosperity of recent years- - - "
"As income gap widens, recession fears grow. Incomes fell for poor and stagnated for middle-class families since late 1990s, making it tougher for them to weather economic downturn."
"Unlike what happened during the economic boom of the 1990s, lower- and middle-class families did not share in the prosperity of recent years, the report found. In fact, the United States has had its longest jobless recovery and slowest rate of payroll growth during this decade."
Bush's constituency is doing fine, though, what with tax cuts, bailouts, etc.
Arf