Belief in the Middle Class Unshaken by Economic Shifts

Neither the Great Recession, nor the sluggish recovery, nor a widening wealth gap has shaken many Americans’ belief that they are solidly middle class, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows.

Despite a rapidly shifting economy that’s largely hollowed out middle-class jobs and deepened inequality in the last generation, few think of themselves as poor (or even as well-to-do), the poll reveals. CONT.

Seth Freed Wessler, NBC News

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