UNITED STATES
OF DIVISIONS:
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KNOCK THE HUSTLE
Larrilou Carumba
walks the picket line
in front of the San
Francisco Marriott
Marquis. A new union
contract includes a
wage increase.AMERICANDREAM
Though this specific term was popularized by
historian James Truslow Adams in 1931, the
concept of opportunity (often through meritoc-
racy) in the New World predates the founding of
the United States itself.MIDDLE CL ASS
The class to which most Americans think they
belong, this group lost its status as the U.S.
economic majority in 2015. The term was first
used in the 18th century to describe people who
were neither nobles nor peasants.