Chance of at least middle-class lifestyle in US

[sam h]

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On a somewhat unrelated note, I once read a survey that claimed something like 97% of Americans described themselves as middle-class.

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Nice! [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] Many people just have very little perspective about where they stand in the income structure. Also, nobody wants to admit to being "upper class." I had this argument a long time ago with somebody on this forum, but I forget who. Basically it came down to the idea that if you worked and had any financial limitations at all, you were "middle-class" even if your household was pulling in over 200K a year and you could be placed somewhere near the 95th percentile in the income structure.