• ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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.

    • Match!!@pawb.social
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      5 months ago

      Americans have been deceived into thinking themselves middle class for longer than either of us have been alive

    • interrobang@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 months ago

      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.