Over the past 10 years, the proportion of middle-income students attending the University of California has declined at nearly twice the rate of California middle-income households, while the share of ...

Abstract: Based on the reviews of various methods at home and abroad, this report redefines the quantitative criteria for middle-income earners and estimates and projects the proportion of ...

Abstract: The middle-income group has a great impact on the long-term social and economic development. At present, China’s middle-income group is featured by a swift growth in number, a small ...

Despite a slowly recovering economy, the proportion of Americans who identify themselves as middle class has dropped sharply in recent years. Today, about as many Americans identify themselves as ...

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Asked to place themselves on a five-step socioeconomic ladder, about half of Americans (49%) say they are in the middle, according to the Pew Research survey. In a similar survey taken in 2008, 53% of ...