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Health costs have been rising for middle class families. Nearly one in five

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问题     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)____________.
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