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Updated: 6:01 p.m. ET Sept. 9, 2007

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Our readers have chosen our next assignment: How the middle class is coping with an increasing squeeze on their pocketbook. As our reporters work on that topic for our October report, please check back the week of Sept. 17 for our report on the Iraq war’s impact on the home front. Full story

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FIRST PERSON

Homecomings/departures
Click here to send in your videos, images and stories about soldiers departing for or returning from war. The best submissions will be included in a gallery accompanying our Gut Check America report on the Iraq war's impact on the home front.

About this series

What keeps you up at night? MSNBC.com’s Gut Check America series invites you, our readers, to tell us what matters most to you and how it affects you, your loved ones or neighbors. Each month, our editors select five of the best submissions and have our readers vote on which issue or story we should cover. Coming in September: The Iraq war's impact on the home front, chosen by a plurailty of our readers in August's voting as their No. 1 concern.

WHAT YOU'RE SAYING

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How is the middle class going to last when the "hot new job" only pays 45k/year? 45k/year should be the average job at today's cost of living, not a high end job. Many of these jobs pay less than they did 10 years ago.Posted by DealMaker777 Go to discussion board

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