The middle-class may be the foundation upon which the United States was built, but it’s nonetheless slowly disappearing.
According to a Pew Research Center report from December 2015, the aggregate number of middle-class households (120.8 million) is now lower than the combined total of lower- and upper-income households combined (121.3 million). Mind you, in 1971 there were nearly 29 million more middle-class households than lower- and upper-income classes combined.