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Decades ago, a middle-income salary may have felt like enough to live a “middle-class lifestyle.” Today, Americans say that they’d need to make over $186,000 per year on average to feel ...
Hang around in certain circles long enough, and you hear a lot about 70-hour work weeks. Then, after that complaint, you start hearing about 80-hour workweeks, and so forth in the arms race.
According to the class model by Dennis Gilbert, the working class comprises those between the 25th and 55th percentile of society. In 2018, 31% of Americans described themselves as working class. [3] Retired American adults are less likely to describe themselves as "working class", regardless of the actual income or education level of the adult ...
The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure is a 1992 book by labor economist Juliet Schor on the increase of American working hours in the late 20th century. Bibliography [ edit ]
On an average middle-class income, many workers struggle to fund a retirement plan to begin with, let alone save a higher percentage of their salary than the typical worker.
The Overachievers or The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids is a non-fiction book written by Alexandra Robbins. [1] Using the example of some American teenagers, it centers upon overachievement in high school, emphasizing its negative effect in modern American society.
The US economy feels lousy for so many people. So you’d think some really, really, shockingly good news about the job market would give Americans’ spirits a boost. It won’t. Here’s why ...
The idea that American society can be divided into social classes is disputed, and there are many competing class systems. [2] Many Americans believe in a social class system that has three different groups or classes: the American rich (upper class), the American middle class, and the American poor.