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The American economic landscape is changing nearly every day and if you are not paying attention, you might miss out on ...
Find Out: How Middle-Class Earners Are Quietly Becoming Millionaires — and How You Can, Too. As the years pass, the U.S. class system — or, more precisely, how we understand it — keeps changing.
Following Gresham’s law, the issue is that in lower class culture values such as prudence, patience, planning, and delayed gratification are undervalued while disvalues such as misogyny, ...
Yes, the Middle Class Has Been Disappearing, but They Haven’t Fallen into the Lower Class, They’ve Risen into the Upper Class. By Mark J. Perry. July 12, 2013.
A smaller majority of lower-class adults say it is not required (63%), while 36% say that it is. And among the 11% of the public who describe themselves as lower class – separate from the 31% who say ...
Nearly four in 10 Americans ages 18 to 29 identified as lower-class in 2012, a jump from 25 percent in 2008. In July, the unemployment rate among those ages 20 to 24 was 13.5 percent and at 8.2 ...
The middle class used to earn the largest slice of the nation's income. It held 62% in 1970, but that share has since fallen to 43%. The lower class, meanwhile, holds 9% of the country's income ...
As the years pass, the U.S. class system — or, more precisely, how we understand it — keeps changing. And there’s a geographic component to it all. What makes you “wealthy” in one state ...