1.0 link 228428 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/drew-westen/who-is-the-american-middl_b_228428.html Economists may define "middle class" as the group whose income lies some distance from the mean family income (the average of all households) or the median income (the income level above which half of American families fall below and half above). But in the United States, as surveys over many years have shown, middle class is as much a state of mind as a state of wealth. Most Americans consider themselves middle class (although many now see themselves as having...

]]> 2009-07-09T04:40:00-04:00