"Gunner" wrote in message
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Well, you can take the position of the conservative think-tank, the Cato
Institute, and point out that a careful analysis of the quintile
divisions
of family income in the US indicates that the middle class is doing just
about as well as it's done since the early '70s.

Then, like the Cato Institute, you could ignore the fact that it now
frequently requires two incomes for a family to remain in the middle
quintiles, where it once required one.

Even in the early 70s, it took two incomes. That started about 1968-9
with the Great Society....

Gunner

Is this an "opinion," or do you have the numbers to support your idea? You
can find them at the Dept. of Labor website. See you next week. g

Ed Huntress