Posted on 09/16/2013 3:18:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Chris Roquemore once thought of himself as working class. But it's hard to keep thinking that, he said, when you're not working.
The 28-year-old father said he sparred with his supervisors at a retail chain about taking time off after his mother died — and ended up unemployed. Since then, Roquemore has worked odd jobs and started studying nursing at Long Beach City College, trying to get "a career, not a job." All those changes, in turn, changed the way he thought of himself.
Roquemore is among the small but surging share of Americans who identify themselves as "lower class." Last year, a record 8.4% of Americans put themselves in that category — more than at any other time in the four decades that the question has been asked on the General Social Survey, a project of the independent research organization Norc at the University of Chicago.
The rising numbers surprised some researchers and activists even in light of the bruising economy. For decades, the vast majority of Americans have seen themselves as "middle class" or "working class." Even during earlier downturns, so few people called themselves lower class that scholars routinely lumped them with working class. Activists for the poor often avoid the term, deeming it an insult.....
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
“Because 0bama!”
Sounds logical. The Democrats and this idiot administration are destroying the middle class at a record rate.
As designed. Move people down and create dependency. As in all socialist states, you end up with two classes...a small group of connected, wealthy rulers and the masses who are taken care of.
“When they said you was high-classed, well, that was just a lie.” —Elvis Presley
That may be how they “identify” but....
Sheesh! Anyone who is not the president or in congress is now considered the lower class.
Socialism creates the pyramid social structure it promised to eliminate.
Slaves to the parasites.
That’s quite an interesting article.
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