President Donald Trump often takes credit for the strong national economy. On his watch, wages are up, unemployment is down, and the poverty rate has continued a four-year decline.
Last summer, the Trump administration even declared the country's war on poverty "largely over and a success".
Yet, experts say that little of the country's economic boom is reaching poor and middle-class households. "When we look under the hood, we see that the Trump economy is one in which gains haven't been equally shared - not even close - across the income spectrum," said Rachel West, director of poverty research at the Center for American Progress, a progressive think-tank.
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