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The average American family had the same amount of wealth in 2013 as it did in 1989

A rental home owned by Blackstone is shown in Riverside, California January 23, 2014.

More than half of the homeowners at that bottom end of the wealth distribution were underwater on their mortgages in 2013. Image: REUTERS/Mike Blake

Jim Tankersley
Economic Policy Correspondent, The Washington Post
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 Holdings of Family Wealth, by Wealth Group
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Share of Families in Debt and Averave Indebtedness for those families
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