Report: America’s Four Middle Classes

America’s Four Middle Classes? From Joe the Plumber to the neighbor who [used to] live next door.

Reports and stats drive our daily lives.  From what’s in our grocery stores to speeches giving by politicians, to legistlation, to local news, and for one part of our middles class: the response and treatment from police.

Last year (2008) in July, a report defining the middle class was the results of a national survey.  Instantly we saw a shift in the presidential campaign (i.e. joe the plumber was thrown into the race).  The campaign became all about the middle class.  Not America’s poor or poverty. The middle class was quickly becoming the new poor.

Lives were “trending” downward.  The middle class was no longer moving on up.  The American dream was not insured and Americans were losing more and more each day.  At post time, a news report Good Morning America was showing shoppers excited and doing the buggy at a new retail store – Goodwill.

How did America’s middle class get here.  A national survey conducted by the Pew Research Center Social and Demographic Trends project says it depends which part of the middle class you truly belong.

The Top of the Class 35%- members of this group—predominantly male, disproportionately well-educated and financially secure—expect to do even better in the future.

The Satisfied Middle Class 25% – has everything but money; their comparatively modest incomes have not muted their sunny outlooks or overall satisfaction with their lives

The Anxious Middle 23% – by income, education, age, employment and family status, the fourth middle class group is the most middle class of all—and the most dissatisfied and downbeat of the four groups

The Struggling Middle 17% -  a group disproportionately composed of women and minorities. Have more in common with the lower class1 than they do with those in the other three groups

Note: These four groups are all part of the 53% majority of Americans who identified themselves as “middle class” in a Pew Research telephone survey taken from Jan 24 through Feb. 19, 2008 among a nationally representative sample of 2,413 adults.

Pew Social & Demographic Trends says, taken together, this statistical typology of the four middle classes paints a nuanced picture of the American middle class and those who claim membership in it. Read More>>

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