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Old Posted Oct 5, 2019, 1:37 AM
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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright View Post
Households making less than $100k a year are not really "middle class" in Chicago
But in the context of the black community of Chicago, the article states that black households only make about 43% of what white households make (an astonishing divide, btw, far larger than the national difference), so i think it's very safe to say that any black households in Chicago making $50 - 100K would fall squarely into chicago's "black middle class", and that's precisely the group that's currently experiencing the largest population drop, hence the headline.
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