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Many of the places that LOST the most middle class also seem to have a big RISE in UPPER class. At least it looks like that from the map. Am I reading that wron
by blakesterz 10y ago
Many of the places that LOST the most middle class also seem to have a big RISE in UPPER class. At least it looks like that from the map. Am I reading that wrong? Can we interpret that to mean at least some middle class went up? I guess the word "Shrinking" here is assumed to mean "Gone Down" but at least some of that Went Up, didn't it? I can't seem to figure out from looking at this.
- quadrangle 10y agoYou only looked at the first section. There's three sections in the article: areas where middle moved to upper, areas where middle moved down, areas where middle split between moving up and down. The article headline was wrong in the posting here, btw.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> I guess the word "Shrinking" here is assumed to mean "Gone Down" It means that the share of the population in the "middle class" (as defined in the work) has gone down, not that the direction that they have moved to the lower classes (from the national report [0] that preceded the locality-based one that the article is based on, the net movement has been nearly equal to the lowest and highest tier, with a slight bias to the highest tier.) [0] http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/09/the-american-middle-class-is-losing-ground/ http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/09/the-american-middl...