https://archive.ph/2026.04.05-025428/https://www.wsj.com/eco...
"Upper middle class" for a family is $133k according to them.
Things look very rosy for our economy as long as you're using 1963 numbers as your poverty baseline and extrapolating from there.
In less HCOL areas it is getting by, but possibly never owning a house.
Hardly the upper middle class lifestyle one imagines being lived by doctors, lawyers, etc in times past.