Like you are falling behind, you can call us at 202 7488002. You can also find us on social media. Facebook and twitter. It has been over eight years since the start of the Great Recession. Manyways the economy people feel the recovery has yet to reach them. Here could be one reason why. Look at this data. It shows the share of adults living in middleincome households is falling. Households fell into the middle income category. Since then that number has dropped to just a few percent in 2015. Thats a number of households living in middle income brackets. How does the Research Center actually defined middle income and upper income . You are considered upper income by the pew Research Center if you make at least 72,500 targets 72,521 as a Single Person hoousehold. That number does increase as the number of people in the household increases. A family of five needs to earn 162,001 at 61 in order to be upper income. Middle income, the minimum about to read is 54,000. Interesting and pretty