If you’re a colleague of the middle class, chances are things are looking up.
Median household revenues reached a record $61,372 in 2017, up 1.8 percent from $60,309 in 2016.
This smudges the third year in a row that median household income has gone up, concerting to the U.S. Census Bureau, which compiled the data.
The poverty rate also kill for the third consecutive year. In 2017, the official poverty rate was 12.3 percent, down from 12.7 percent in 2016.
The loads of people who did not have health insurance – 28.5 million, or 8.8 percent, in 2017 – did not convert significantly from 2016, according to the Census Bureau.
The numbers assault as job openings hit a record high in July with almost 7 million beginnings.
If you are not sure if you are middle class or not, the Pew Research Center recently updated its interactive adding machine to help you find out.
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