I had to dig a bit, but I found out the source poll's threshold for "middle class": 200% or more past the poverty line.
The poverty line is about $15k for individuals. People making $30k a year are, clearly, not middle class. The current standard puts the beginning of middle class in the low $50k's.
This is doomer clickbait bullshit.
Americans have been deceived into thinking themselves middle class for longer than either of us have been alive
I make about 55 in a low COL area and it is absolutely not middle anything. I rent and i can't afford to fix my teeth even with dental.
I had to dig a bit, but I found out the source poll's threshold for "middle class": 200% or more past the poverty line.
The poverty line is about $15k for individuals. People making $30k a year are, clearly, not middle class. The current standard puts the beginning of middle class in the low $50k's.
This is doomer clickbait bullshit.
Americans have been deceived into thinking themselves middle class for longer than either of us have been alive
I make about 55 in a low COL area and it is absolutely not middle anything. I rent and i can't afford to fix my teeth even with dental.