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  1. May 31, 2024 · The share of overall income held by lower-income households edged down from 10% in 1970 to 8% in 2022. This happened even though the share of people living in lower-income households increased over this period. The share of people in the U.S. middle class varied from 46% to 55% across racial and ethnic groups in 2022.

  2. Apr 20, 2022 · The middle class, once the economic stratum of a clear majority of American adults, has steadily contracted in the past five decades. The share of adults who live in middle-class households fell from 61% in 1971 to 50% in 2021, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of government data.

  3. May 7, 2018 · Popular definitions of middle class status may then overlap with expert definitions of the working class. Yet few would claim that the middle class is the same as the working class—that is ...

  4. Aug 14, 2023 · In that system, “middle class” is generally defined as A and B consumers — people in higher and intermediate managerial roles in administrative and professional occupations. The NRS system ...

  5. Jan 3, 2024 · The chart below examines this idea by showing the percentage-point Conservative lead in four occupational classes in 2015, 2019 and 2023; a middle class consisting of managerial and professional occupations (46.7% of the sample), an intermediate class of routine white-collar workers (22.5%), a class of small business owners and the self-employed (6.4%), and a working class of routine and semi ...

  6. May 14, 2021 · From 2007 to 2017, the middle class shrank by about 2.7 percent, with about 1.9 percent moving to the upper class and about 0.8 percent falling into the lower class. For the 0.8 percent who fell into the lower class—about 2.6 million Americans—it is increasingly likely that they and their children will remain lower class due to increasing social rigidity .

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  8. Oct 20, 2022 · The middle class is working less and earning less money. From 2000 to 2019, the share of middle class families participating in the labor force decreased from about 67% to about 63%. Those members of the middle class who are working are earning less as of 2019 than they were in 2000. The average wage income fell about 7%, from $39k to $36k, in ...

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