middle class

This article gave me food for thought. We often muse on how the recession is dragging people down financially. I hadn’t previously thought about how it might be removing the distinction between working and lower middle class. I know to many these are false categorisations anyway. But it seems to me many professional people of modest means are finding it increasingly challenging financially to live in rural England. What do you think?

The Government’s social mobility tsar, Alan Milburn, will this week warn that social mobility has gone into reverse. For the first time in a century, the middle classes are becoming worse off. In the words of one Whitehall official: “Social mobility is no longer just an issue for children from poor families. There’s a real risk that children from families with above-average incomes will in future have lower living standards than their parents.”