A year+-old report “…showed that more than 50% of the world’s population lived in households with enough discretionary income to be considered middle class or rich.”

Free-Market capitalism is (provably) the reason; even some Democrats know it…even if they’re only willing to acknowledge the truth alone, and behind closed doors.

“…true believers because they’ve seen the data, which make it abundantly clear that capitalism has been the greatest anti-poverty program ever conceived by mankind.”

Then there’s socialism: “…look at Venezuela to see what happens when a country goes in the other direction – abandoning capitalism in favor of socialism…Venezuela went from one of the richest countries in South America to the absolute poorest … after it embraced the kind of socialist policies AOC and Sanders want to impose here. “

Facts and data don’t lie…socialists do.

The Issues-&-Insights article is well worth the read.