Weird’s Deep Thoughts (Friday Noon Navel Gazing Edition): One-Third Of Americans Now Consider Themselves Lower Class

One third of Americans now count themselves part of the lower-middle or lower classes, according to a report from Pew Research Center, including nearly 40 percent of young people between the ages of 18 and 30.

The numbers are jarring not only for the grim picture they paint of the current economy, but because the broad majority Americans historically have resisted thinking of themselves of anything but solidly middle class.

More troubling is that the pessimism reflected in the report doesn’t appear to be a simple result of the recent downturn…..

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