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Originally Posted by pauldenton
yes that's what i meant by your use of "middle class" being different to ours - there is no way that someone on UK median income would be described as "middle class" here...
(that is about what an average University graduate earns as a starting salary..)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3890313.stm
if you look at that guardian article - i fixed the link btw. - you'll see that it also says that Median household income for skilled manual and non-manual workers is about £27,000 before tax - these are people who would be described as (skilled) "working class" in the UK.....
the "middle class" benchmark is more the example it gives as "galaxy man", in the top 20% of the income distribution.... at a family income of £60k *- so $87,600...
and don't forget that he has no need to shell out on health insurance here (he may well do, or get it from work, but it's cheaper because of the NHS as a backup for extremes and because drugs/costs/wages in healthcare are lower than the states...), and he can send his kids to oxford/cambridge for a fraction of the cost of harvard/yale etc. |
Interesting economic breakdown on the EU vs US. - The US Poor are not the same as the EU poor and like I said our poor are on par with the EU middle class
http://www.timbro.com/euvsusa/pdf/EU_vs_USA_English.pdf
All of the EU faces the same economic problem as france -
France hard line on the rioters was great to see