9 ways to know if you're middle class

In San Francisco, CA you need a MINIMUM of $180k/yr income to be middle class.

I have a job and family and YET I can get wick and other freebies but I don't want them so where does that put me Poor ?? This article is nothing but more skewing the numbers game !

Most middle class people are Republicans...we work hard for what we have and want to keep it. While most of your democrates are welfare scums or your bleeding hearts who want to steal money from hardworking Americans to give it to lazy scum.

The whole, "You lean Democratic" is a bunch of bologna! That's the liberal media for you! Nearly all the middle class people I know are Republican. They work hard for their money want to keep it! Not give it to the government for more taxes.

I am afraid these figures just do not work out for montgomery County MD. Middle class here is 100,00 - 250,000 a year house hold income.  My family is in the middle of that range and we can not afford half of the stuff this article says people making 56-75 are able to do. Four grand a year for vacation? in my dreams, not with Daycare cost 2600 a month.

How about the Dollar Store because as a middle class citizen that's how much I can afford these days. Everything keeps going up except my salary.

 

I don't see how $100K is the top of "middle class."  We live in suburbia, everyone around here is middle class, and most two-income families make more than $100K combined...but see how far that gets you with 2 - 4 kids and two student loan debts.  We make over that amount and can't yet afford Disney World, that's for sure.

"Middle Class", is a state of mind. 

 

Statistics will tell you that you need to make a minimum of $90K to be considered middle class.  Anything below that is "working class, upper lower class, lower class" and so on.

 

Forget what label you want to fall under, forget what statistics tell you where you fall. 

 

If you work, you try to support your family, and you do the best you can with what you have, regardless of how much you have, then there is only one label that you should fall under...and that is "Hard working".

 

lol...this post clearly tells you I'm "poor".  haha

Two incomes of 50k, home with 298k to still pay off, 8 years from retirement, and thanks to greedy creditcard companies charging high interest, walloing in debt. Equity in the home is gone because of the values plummeting, and now underwater and unable to get out from under the debt.

 

Worried about the job not being there tomorrow, 401k depleted, worried about retiring. living like we're poor because everything we counted on has been squeezed out. Everyone takes a piece, and is getting rich, while our debt mounts.

There is no middle class, we are all poor on different levels.

This article is a big pile of BS.  Kim Peterson, go find some Occupy group to sit in instead of writing a piece of garbage like this.

How do you know you are raging liberal who wastes there time labeling people.

Slide one- your Kim Peterson
Slide two- you think this is a good article.