The American middle-class may be battered, but it can’t be knocked down.
Over the past 15 years, the U.S. economy has weathered the dot-com bubble and bust, the housing bubble and bust, the financial crisis and two recessions with shallow recoveries, yet the vast majority of Americans continue to identify as middle or working class, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.
To gauge the health of middle-class America, the poll revived a series of questions about middle-class identity from 1998. CONT.
Josh Zumbrun, Wall Street Journal