According to the Pew Charitable Trust methodology for identifying the middle class, if people near the boundary between the upper middle and highest income class gain more income, the middle class will ________
A. increase, and that is unambiguously a bad thing.
B. shrink, and that is unambiguously a bad thing.
C. shrink, but that is unambiguously a good thing.
D. increase, but that is unambiguously a good thing.
Answer: C
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