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Ted Cruz: “Around 1975, the country's real per capita gross domestic…”

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America has seen what in any other. Country would be considered a golden age in which lower income households have made incredible progress despite the end of our. Post war economic dominance. Around 1975, the country's real per capita gross domestic product grew by 142% from 1974 to 2024. More than 2/3 of U.S. households have inflation adjusted incomes today. That would have put them in the top 1/5 of households in 1967. So used to be the top 1/5 of households In 1967. (28:17–28:26)

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