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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3348431" data-attributes="member: 56035">from NPR:<a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/03/01/517975766/while-trump-touts-stock-market-many-americans-left-out-of-the-conversation" target="_blank">While Trump Touts Stock Market, Many Americans Are Left Out Of The Conversation</a>Those stock market gains will overwhelmingly benefit the richest AmericansAccording to Wolff&#039;s data, the top 20 percent of Americans owned 92 percent of the stocks in 2013.Put another way: Eighty percent of Americans together owned just 8 percent of all stocks.One is that when a politician brings up the stock market as a measure of economic success, that success isn&#039;t very relevant to many Americans.While half of Americans benefit from the stock market (the richest far more than the rest), many lower- and middle-class Americans don&#039;t even have the retirement accounts that constitute many middle-class Americans&#039; stock ownership. <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/national/" target="_blank">U.S. </a><a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/02/28/517523714/what-we-know-about-the-trump-house-gop-tax-plans-so-far" target="_blank"> What We Know About The Trump, House GOP Tax Plans So Far</a>More than <a href="http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2016/09/employer-sponsored-retirement-plan-access-uptake-and-savings" target="_blank">one-third of Americans</a> working full time have no access through their employers to either pensions or retirement investment accounts like 401(k)s, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3348431, member: 56035"] from NPR: [URL="https://www.npr.org/2017/03/01/517975766/while-trump-touts-stock-market-many-americans-left-out-of-the-conversation"]While Trump Touts Stock Market, Many Americans Are Left Out Of The Conversation[/URL] Those stock market gains will overwhelmingly[B] benefit the richest Americans[/B] According to Wolff's data, the top 20 percent of Americans owned 92 percent of the stocks in 2013. Put another way: Eighty percent of Americans together owned just 8 percent of all stocks. One is that when a politician brings up the stock market as a measure of economic success, that success [B]isn't very relevant t[/B]o many Americans. While half of Americans benefit from the stock market ([B]the richest far more than the rest[/B]), many lower- and middle-class Americans don't even have the retirement accounts that constitute many middle-class Americans' stock ownership. [SIZE=4][B][URL='https://www.npr.org/sections/national/']U.S. [/URL][/B] [B][URL='https://www.npr.org/2017/02/28/517523714/what-we-know-about-the-trump-house-gop-tax-plans-so-far'] What We Know About The Trump, House GOP Tax Plans So Far[/URL][/B][/SIZE] More than [URL='http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2016/09/employer-sponsored-retirement-plan-access-uptake-and-savings']one-third of Americans[/URL] working full time have[B] no access through their employers to either pensions or retirement[/B] investment accounts like 401(k)s, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts. [/QUOTE]

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