middle class

People who are middle income, globally speaking, live on $10.01-20 a day.
America clings to the conceit that four years of college are necessary for everyone, and looks down its nose at people who don't have college degrees. This has to stop. It's time to give up the idea that every young person has to go to college, and start offering high-school seniors an alternative route into the middle class.
Sen. Bernie Sanders offered a devastating indictment of Ronald Reagan in one chart showing the decline of earnings and growth for the middle class compared to the top 10 percent.