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U.S. household income flat

Stronger consumer spending is the key to a sustained recovery. For spending to rise, analysts said, income growth has to resume. Personal incomes were flat in July, the eighth month out of 10 in which incomes have either fallen or failed to grow. Americans... Full Article at The State

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