Shrinking Middle Class

In my labor studies class we are learning about what it means to be middle class in the United States. I will be analyzing on how three different articles differ and also compare on this topic of the middle class. I will go in depth on how the articles talk about this topic and what type of methods they use. I will see if these articles use pictures or if they use special fonts. I also want to see if the articles do anything special to make one of these articles stand out from the other ones.
The first article is the article my Labor Studies teacher gave us to read and it talks about the middle class and it isn’t what it used to be. It gives history that a long time ago people made this amount of money a year. Now in this day and age people …show more content…
They go on to talk about the middle class shrinking or disappearing just like the first article. They talk about the middle class shrinking in the final decades of the 20th century. It also has graphs unlike the first article did showing the difference between the different classes. This article just like the first also talks about the how 50 percent of the population is above the poverty line. The article is a little bit different from the first article in that the range is $35,000 to $100,000. In the last article the range was $25,500 to $76,500 so there isn’t that drastic of a change. The authors agree with the last article in that if your making $100,00 you still consider your self middle class. Also if you are a younger household from 30-44 you are more likely to have a lower income. If you are an older household in your 60’s you are likely to be middle or upper middle class. Unlike the other article this article gives tons of graphs to support their data and they are also easy to read. Education is a factor in this reading unlike the first …show more content…
There have been multiple studies of the income range done. All of these articles are in common in that no one knows what the income range is for the middle class. That’s why the middle class is disappearing and there is no set number. The author has a psychologist saying that people’s social status has more to do with their heads then their wallets. Which neither the first two articles had somebody like that talk about this subject. They go on to say that people making six figures call them selves upper middle class because they don’t want to feel different. Which is very interesting because this article is taking a totally different route then the first two articles did but it also had some similar points that the first two articles