After five+ years of recession, those better off are the exception.
The “recession” ended years ago. It became, and still is, a depression, in spite of the phony numbers cooked up for public consumption. The real numbers (labor force participation, capital escaping from these shores, business “inversions” which transfer company headquarters overseas to avoid US taxes, cumbersome and onerous regulation of sometimes the most minute of transactions) are out there, but so covered up or camouflaged as to made logical interpretation difficult at best.