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Statistical middle class
The statistical middle class is a term encompassing all those individuals who might at one point or another be identified as middle class, as they are neither extreme of the socio-economic strata. The term can also be used to describe those at the actual center of the income strata, who may also be referred to as the middle-middle class. There many different theories on the middle-middle class. The middle-middle class may be composed of those households with an annual income of 80% to 120% of the national median household income. Persons in this income range could be, in accordance to solely economic reasoning be referred to as the American average. Such households would boast annual incomes ranging from $35,200 to $52,800, and thus be located in the middle of the income range.[11] Such households, while actually being in the middle and thus sometimes referred to as being middle class, cannot, however, afford the middle class lifestyle.[6] Yet another definition states that the statistical middle class includes all those households with income ranging from $25,000 to $100,000.[1] This is however a very vague definition as it includes persons from all but the lowest quintile. Using this definition creates a class so economically fragmented that it would lump together those who are struggling to make ends meet with two incomes and those who are able to live the iconic middle class lifestyle with just one income and are highly educated.
