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There’s a distinction between the lower, middle and upper classes, but did you know there’s also a category between them ...
1. San Jose, California Median home price: $2,020,000 Highest middle-class income: $272,458 Max affordable home price: $1,223,956 Difference between max affordability and median home price: -$796,044 ...
The American Dream promises that anyone—regardless of background or birth—can achieve prosperity through hard work and ...
“True ‘middle class’ in the U.S. is gone, because it used to mean you could have home ownership without help and be upwardly mobile. That dream died in the ’90s.
With a median income of $74,225, it takes between roughly $49,500 and $148,500 to be middle class nationally, SmartAsset found. That’s up from $49,271 to $147,828 last year.
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