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Even Americans earning more than $155,000 now call themselves ‘working class’—a sign of how far the affordability crisis has spread
Sixty percent of Americans identify as “working class”—including millions of top earners who believe their economic struggles now match a term long reserved for low-income workers.
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A Pew Research Center analysis of a January 2026 survey found that 60 percent of U.S. adults say “working class” describes them well, even as many of those respondents earn high incomes. The study notes that the label now includes millions of top earners who feel their economic struggles align with a term traditionally reserved for low‑income workers. Half of college‑educated respondents also identify as working class, underscoring the breadth of the affordability crisis.
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