Comments on: Biden: Republicans Have Failed to Address Middle Class Issues http://www.middleclassimpact.com/2008/09/biden-republicans-have-failed-to-address-middle-class-issues/ News and advocacy Sun, 20 May 2012 09:48:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Ed (Webmaster) http://www.middleclassimpact.com/2008/09/biden-republicans-have-failed-to-address-middle-class-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Ed (Webmaster) Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:53:56 +0000 http://www.middleclassimpact.com/?p=183#comment-36 Unfortunately, it is difficult to impossible to define middle income (unless you want to pick some arbitrary definition). This is because the middle (as in middle class) is more about lifestyle than a particular number. For example: a family income of $60,000 per year would be considered middle income in most geographic areas but a family can't live a middle class lifestyle on that in New York city. Conversely, in an area like the NY metropolitan area, an income of $170,000 would put a family in the middle class, while it would put a family into the upper class in a small town in Mississippi. … so this leaves us with a definition of middle class much like the late Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart's definition of pornography: "I can't define it, but I know it when I see it." Unfortunately, it is difficult to impossible to define middle income (unless you want to pick some arbitrary definition). This is because the middle (as in middle class) is more about lifestyle than a particular number. For example: a family income of $60,000 per year would be considered middle income in most geographic areas but a family can’t live a middle class lifestyle on that in New York city. Conversely, in an area like the NY metropolitan area, an income of $170,000 would put a family in the middle class, while it would put a family into the upper class in a small town in Mississippi.

… so this leaves us with a definition of middle class much like the late Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s definition of pornography: “I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it.”

]]> By: JD http://www.middleclassimpact.com/2008/09/biden-republicans-have-failed-to-address-middle-class-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-35 JD Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:09:53 +0000 http://www.middleclassimpact.com/?p=183#comment-35 Will someone for the love of all that is holy, define what "middle-income" is. Will someone for the love of all that is holy, define what “middle-income” is.

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