America - Sliding Down The Shitter

[John V]

The fact that we (as a nation) have so much money is the most frustrating thing about our income inequality and the disgusting lack of respect for the working poor.*

Because things are worse other places we shouldn't be addressing the problems here? How fallacious.

*The working poor includes a TON of people who mistakenly believe they are middle class

What's the income level or other defining traits of these people who are poor but think they're working class?

As I was reading this thread, I was thinking that the main problem might be differing thoughts as to what is or isn't middle class.

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https://money.cnn.com/infographic/econom...ss-anyway/

Everyone's talking about saving America's middle class. But just who exactly falls into this group?

That's actually a much more difficult question to answer than it seems. While some experts define the middle class by income, others define it by lifestyle. Still others say it's a state of mind.

Here are five different ways that economists, federal agencies and even the White House measure and characterize the middle class.