<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080409/ap_on_bi_ge/middle_class_poll"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080409/capt.cps.mvy75.090408180149.photo01.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=bfBfLepmFYSkjZFsDi 4ODg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A home for sale in a Colorado neighborhood. The global economic outlook is becoming increasingly grim as the United States appears unable to escape recession from a housing meltdown whose effects are still spreading, the IMF has said.(AFP/GETTY IMAGES/File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Growing numbers of middle-class Americans say they aren't better off than they were five years ago, reflecting economic pressures amid growing debt, a study released Wednesday shows. Their short-term assessment of personal progress, according to the study, is the worst it's been in nearly half a century.</p><br clear="all"/>

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