the middle class 1

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There was a PBS news story a few weeks ago about some people who felt that the middle class had slipped by them. They had three people there who were telling their stories. One was a single mother in her late 30s with children who talked about how she couldn't get ahead or go to college. What they didn't tell us was what decisions these folks had made in their earlier lives. This seems pertinent to me. My inclination is to be sympathetic, but I don't think you get to make a lot of bad decisions, get natural results, and then claim that you are mistreated by the system.

Tom pointed out in a previous post that, when he was younger, they considered themselves to be middle class though they had much less than some of those who now consider themselves to be left out of the middle class.

PS What is needed is some good measures of what a healthy middle class looks like, so that we could compare ours then and now kind of thing. They are out there and it is on my list to find out what they are. But I haven't yet. Does anybody know some?
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