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diabeticman

(3,121 posts) Fri Dec 28, 2012, 08:39 AM Dec 2012

So my wife and I are the working Poor? We make about $1,800 a month. If we are lucky $31,000 a year.

Our new place we are renting is about $475 a month. We had only been paying $300 a month. (We live in the rust belt--Western PA)

Yeah sometimes my wife and I have a little trouble making ends meet BUT I just figured we would be lumped into lower middle class.

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So my wife and I are the working Poor? We make about $1,800 a month. If we are lucky $31,000 a year. (Original Post) diabeticman Dec 2012 OP

It looks like the term "middle class" is becoming obsolete. In_The_Wind Dec 2012 #1

Hugs Harry_Scrote Dec 2012 #2

There's the über-wealthy Top 1% - then there's everyone else. baldguy Dec 2012 #3

The problem is inflation distortion. Divide by 10. Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #4

Definitions are deliberately "fuzzied".. SoCalDem Dec 2012 #5

Agreed Sherman A1 Dec 2012 #6

Feel awful for you and your wife.. trumad Dec 2012 #7

I'd say you're lower middle class. Barack_America Dec 2012 #8

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

1. It looks like the term "middle class" is becoming obsolete.

Reply to diabeticman (Original post)

Fri Dec 28, 2012, 08:48 AM

Dec 2012

It's amazing how far I can stretch our food dollars. I love my crockpot.

Harry_Scrote

(121 posts)

2. Hugs

Reply to diabeticman (Original post)

Fri Dec 28, 2012, 08:54 AM

Dec 2012

...Fellow working poor here.

baldguy

(36,649 posts)

3. There's the über-wealthy Top 1% - then there's everyone else.

Reply to diabeticman (Original post)

Fri Dec 28, 2012, 08:57 AM

Dec 2012

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)

4. The problem is inflation distortion. Divide by 10.

Reply to diabeticman (Original post)

Fri Dec 28, 2012, 09:05 AM

Dec 2012

Now you have a clearer picture of your real income.

SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)

5. Definitions are deliberately "fuzzied"..

Reply to diabeticman (Original post)

Fri Dec 28, 2012, 09:19 AM

Dec 2012

Middle class & small business are the two worst that come to mind..

Both are horribly mis-applied.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

6. Agreed

Reply to SoCalDem (Reply #5)

Fri Dec 28, 2012, 10:06 AM

Dec 2012

they are really so.

trumad

(41,692 posts)

7. Feel awful for you and your wife..

Reply to diabeticman (Original post)

Fri Dec 28, 2012, 10:12 AM

Dec 2012

I've often thought of what I would do in your situation...

Move from the area? Cost money to do that, and where would you move.

Get gov assistance and hit a technical school? Time, money---not sure how old you are?

Again--- it's easy to make suggestions from where I sit--- but man it must be hard for you.

Keep fighting the fight.

Barack_America

(28,876 posts)

8. I'd say you're lower middle class.

Reply to diabeticman (Original post)

Fri Dec 28, 2012, 10:15 AM

Dec 2012

Above the 2012 poverty line for a two-person family.

But, in reality, it all depends how much "stuff" you buy. If you buy a lot of "stuff", then yeah, you're probably working poor.

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