I, as an economist, don't use the term “middle class”. I find it quite meaningless, but if somebody were forcing me to talk about the middle class, I would probably go with the 20th to the 80th percentile in terms of income.
February 16th, 2016 / 11:50 a.m.
Senior Economist, Social and Economic Policy, Canadian Labour Congress
I, as an economist, don't use the term “middle class”. I find it quite meaningless, but if somebody were forcing me to talk about the middle class, I would probably go with the 20th to the 80th percentile in terms of income.
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