In America, we use the term “mass affluent” or “aspirational class” instead of upper class. Or we just say middle class. Nobody in America would ever publicly say they are upper class unless they want to get beat over the head. Instead, people would much prefer to say they are mid...
Income Inequality Study: Upper Middle Class Stagnates.The article presents information on a report by economists Branko Milanovic and Christoph Lakner according to which incomes have risen worldwide.GlassmanMarkBusinessWeek.com
consider ourselves part of the middle class. When Iworked at McDonald's for $4 an hour, I was dirt poor, but considered myself middle class because both my parents had jobs. I also had a bicycle and a cozy home to come home to. ...
Gallup has, for a number of years, asked Americans to place themselves -- without any guidance -- into five social classes:upper, upper-middle, middle, working and lower. These five class labels are representative of the general approach used in popular language and by researchers. Is $40 0...
A clump of baby boomers in their peak earning years may swell the number of upper-middle-income households. business.time.com If all high- and upper-middle-income countries sought vaccines for their entire populations in a pandemic, nearly 2 billion courses would be required. ...
While income is generally the most common metric when comparing lower, middle and upper class, there are several other ways economists, analysts and others have measured what being "middle-class" really means in the U.S. Income In terms of income, Pew Research Center has designated that a mi...
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This Connecticut city is dwarfed by others on our list. Even though the city is small in population, you’ll find the homes in this upper-class suburb are out of reach for just under half of its inhabitants: the homeownership rate in Stamford is about 54%. ...
The shrinking middle class is less a decline in how well the population as a whole is doing. It is not just that people are falling out of the middle class into the lower class. They are also rising into the upper class, albeit in smaller numbers. ...
BRINGING THE MIDDLE CLASS BACK TO CENTRAL CITIES: IS IT FEASIBLE? Urban planners and scholars have expressed concern over the decline of some central cities caused by the continued out-migration of middle- and upper-income households and the concurrent increase in the concentration of the poor and...