Conversation already taking lace on our facebook page, facebook. Com cspan. Whats your life like in the middle class is the question. Recently, the Pew Research Center came out with a study. Here are some of the findings. What americans say it takes to be middle class. Most say it takes a secure job, the ability to save money and further on, its kind of split. Time or money for vacation, owning a home, 57 say no, you dont need to own a home to be in the middle class. And 69 say no, you do not have to have a college education. The sheer adults living the middle Household Income has allen. And no single decade stands out as hastened the decline in the middle. 61 of folks consider themselves to be middle class or were in the middle in 1971. Thats now down to about 50 . All the other numbers, lowest, ower middle, upper middle have tayed pretty steady. Pew more facts from the research center. Who is middle class and upper income . Theres a lot of different definitions economically of what i
Or you can continue with us talking about americas middle class, hearing different stories from people around the country. Ellicott city, maryland. Good morning. Caller good morning. Issue with the definition of middleclass. Different in is different states of the country. Host do you consider yourself middleclass, ahmed . Caller with the current definitions, yes i am. But another essays have, in the past few years and longer than that that of show that when we have economic downturn, many up ourwho lined middleclass. They are prone to Health Problems. When a Health Problem takes place, they became very poor. There are not many assets for these individuals in most cases and they do not have the cushion to absorb any of the crises. He talked to a woman earlier who andd on Social Security rented a place, but she said that was all she had. If she does not have the rental money, she is not able to survive. This. E to look into it. Ust got to revisit the American People are distribution the
It starts back to when the father of wyatt earp, most wellknown, his name is nicholas. He was basically left his family. Emporarily in illinois he heard about the gold rush in northern california. He went back to the midwest. He ventured down to southern california. And he got for the San Bernardino valley. He found that one day he would come back to San Bernardino. We will visit the San Bernardino history and Railroad Museum and talk about the importance of the railroad to San Bernardino with the historian Vice President. Located in the 1918 santa fe depot, the museum contains many objects related to the railroad history. Construction was completed in 1918. It replaced a wooden structure approximately 100 yards east of here that burned in 1960. Why the depot was built a lot larger than needed was because they decided to house the Division Headquarters at this location at that time. Watch the cities tour on cspan 2. Working with the cable affiliates and visiting cities across the count
They do care but how would i tell that to one of my friends when they tell me that their right over life is over . I cannot translate the billions that the u. S. Donated for the person who lost every confidence in the future. I cannot say it to a girl who lost her parents i just cant. It is very difficult. So we feel that i personally feel that i have a responsibility and i have a duty to do something to help create this opportunity for those people. So, and this i felt that the 33 students who came to chicago do share with me this vision that we do have a responsibility , we want to do something. We are all very eager to succeed, just to prove that we as syrians are not what you know about us it is not what you read about us in some news outlets, we are just normal people who can do normal things. To give a tiny example, those 30 students have now gotten offers from google, apple, goldman sachs, from every big company and that is very difficult. If you came to the u. S. In two years a
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