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Health costs have been rising for middle class families. Nearly one in five Americans cannot afford health insurance. (36) that with health insurance companies in great financial shape. United Health Group (37) up 38 per cent this quarter. The company’s CEO William is leaving with a reported 1.1-billion- dollar retirement pension. Even he (38) reports of a stock option scandal. The gap between the wealthy and the working is (39) . And it has been the greatest (40) of wealth from the middle class to the (41) class which we have ever seen in our history. Corporations are handing out profits to their (42) and pink slips to their American employees. IBM reported a 47% jump in (43) profits and layoffs of 400 US engineers. The Dow Johns Index jumped above the 12,000 threshold for the first time. But (44) We’ve always viewed ourselves as a country that provides upward mobility to everyone who works hard and that, in America, you can achieve the middle class dream, if you do so. And right now the middle class is not doing very well. (45) . According to the AFL-CIO, the average CEO, not the CEO at the top, (46)