A heated socio-economic debate has been roiling America for the past two weeks: what income does a household really need to be able to get by without undue strain in US society in 2025, and why does it feel like the financial threshold for a middle-class life has been climbing ever higher?
The FT's chief data reporter, John Burn-Murdoch, answers this.
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