Can this is real money. You are the most important part of the show. Tell me whats on your mind, by treating me ali velshi. Philadelphia has seen a shocking decline in its middle class in the last four decades dropping morning 22 percentage points. The city lost more than four in ten of its middle class adults. Loss of the citys Manufacturing Base and the decline of the city itself. High crime and a Poor Public School system. But theres good news. A recent pew report shows philadelphias middle class has started to stabilize. But its a different middle class than it was in the 1970s. Few blue collar folks, more professionals today. This is a special episode on phillys rocky middle class and how the middle class has changed over the last four decades and what its going to take for the middle class to get back to good. We begin our story in south philadelphia, a traditiona trade collar italian neighborhood. Philadelphia is for reasons as diverse as the people who live here celebrated in e
Can this is real money. You are the most important part of the show. Tell me whats on your mind, by treating me ali velshi. Philadelphia has seen a shocking decline in its middle class in the last four decades dropping morning 22 percentage points. The city lost more than four in ten of its middle class adults. Loss of the citys Manufacturing Base and the decline of the city itself. High crime and a Poor Public School system. But theres good news. A recent pew report shows philadelphias middle class has started to stabilize. But its a different middle class than it was in the 1970s. Few blue collar folks, more professionals today. This is a special episode on phillys rocky middle class and how the middle class has changed over the last four decades and what its going to take for the middle class to get back to good. We begin our story in south philadelphia, a traditiona traditional blue collar italian neighborhood. Philadelphia is for reasons as diverse as the people who live here cele
Can this is real money. You are the most important part of the show. Tell me whats on your mind, by treating me ali velshi. Philadelphia has seen a shocking decline in its middle class in the last four decades dropping morning 22 percentage points. The city lost more than four in ten of its middle class adults. Loss of the citys Manufacturing Base and the decline of the city itself. High crime and a Poor Public School system. But theres good news. A recent pew report shows philadelphias middle class has started to stabilize. But its a different middle class than it was in the 1970s. Few blue collar folks, more professionals today. This is a special episode on phillys rocky middle class and how the middle class has changed over the last four decades and what its going to take for the middle class to get back to good. We begin our story in south philadelphia, a traditiona traditional blue collar italian neighborhood. Philadelphia is for reasons as diverse as the people who live here cele
Real money. [ music ] this is real money, you are the most important part of the show. Tell me whats on your mind by tweeting me or hit me up on facebook. Most americans agree the middle class is in crisis. Squeezed by years of job lose, rising costs and stagnant wages, 40 of americans say they belong to the middle class, down by 53 in 2008, when the recession hit. There is no accepted definition of what the middle class is, economists define it by income. We define americas middle class as households with incomes of anywhere between 40 and 100,000, based on analysis. That encompasses middle income families with similar dreams and pierations, securing a job, home, health care add to that time off for vacations and the ability to save enough for retirement. They are becoming harder to achieve. Median Household Income in the United States was 53,171 a year in 2012 thats the most recent year for which we have data. Half of all households earn more, half less. This number is 7 lower than i
Real money. [ music ] this is real money, you are the most important part of the show. Tell me whats on your mind by tweeting me or hit me up on facebook. Most americans agree the middle class is in crisis. Squeezed by years of job lose, rising costs and stagnant wages, 40 of americans say they belong to the middle class, down by 53 in 2008, when the recession hit. There is no accepted definition of what the middle class is, economists define it by income. We define americas middle class as households with incomes of anywhere between 40 and 100,000, based on analysis. That encompasses middle income families with similar dreams and pierations, securing a job, home, health care add to that time off for vacations and the ability to save enough for retirement. They are becoming harder to achieve. Median Household Income in the United States was 53,171 a year in 2012 thats the most recent year for which we have data. Half of all households earn more, half less. This number is 7 lower than i