These are not numbers I'm used to seeing when discussing middle class in the U.S. The middle class in the U.S. has income from $100K to $1M [1]. Middle class is

These are not numbers I'm used to seeing when discussing middle class in the U.S. The middle class in the U.S. has income from $100K to $1M [1]. Middle class is not the same as middle income. The lower threshold for upper middle class is greater than $100K [2]. Are they using adjusted numbers perhaps? Adjusted to what? Ahh... The non-paywalled article uses "middle income" the moment it starts giving numbers, so the title is click-bait. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_class https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_class [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_middle_class https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_middle_class