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Oh Are a pushers last of three questions on this

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paragraph right here staring right at you R question At

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the same time that immigration was increasing and cities were

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becoming more populous what was happening to the middle class

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Well Business was booming People and all of the businesses

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needed people to run them which fell to the middle

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class The middle class took the jobs that required some

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form of education meaning they dealt with the money oversaw

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the factory's kept records and well basically designed new technologies

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So answer is B middle class was growing His middle

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income jobs like accountants and engineers and clerk became more

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available and necessary to industry Loser bowl Wealthy middle class

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was not competing for the same jobs as immigrants get

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rid of a while Wages for the middle class were

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growing Membership in unions well was mainly to attract lower

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class laborers So get rid of C and some members

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of the middle class were able to climb the social

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ladder to the upper class But it was not a

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majority and the middle class did not shrink because of

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its okay rid of desire The answer here its be

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The middle class was growing And well if you could

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read and do arithmetic well then maybe there was a

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career for you young man and woman

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