Economics
Wives Earn More Than Husbands In Almost 40 Percent Of U.S. Families
In one in three families in the U.S., or 38.
7 Things The Middle Class Can’t Afford Anymore
In its discussion of historical middle class societies, The Economist reports, “Their members are neither rich nor poor but somewhere in-between…’Middle-class’ describes an income category but also a set of attitudes…An essential characteristic is the possession of a reasonable amount of discretionary income. Middle-class people do not live from hand to mouth, job to job, season to season, as the poor do.” Some argue that the most sensible income amount to attach to the middle class would be the median household income, of around $54,000.