True indeed--but if you're going to school for your entire life, you've got some problems already....Well I asked about the since you said that a 40 hour work week isn't going to pull you out of poverty. But while in college I didn't think you could get much more then 40 hours and still do all the work required..
I've never paid much mind to sociologists, but one of the best ways to figure it is how someone compares to other earners. If you're in the bottom 20%, you may not be dirt-poor but you're not doing so hot. Likewise if you're in the top 20%, then while you may not be filthy rich, you're doing pretty well. The poverty line, if I remember right, is around 18000 for a family of four--basically, it's the amount of money they figure you need each year to buy the basic necessities. However, it is indeed more expensive to live in some areas than in others--I could live pretty comfortably here in North Georgia on 30 grand a year, but in California I'd have to find something that paid more.mm.. I wonder. our teacher gave a couple examples here... mainly that while some people percieve you as going up in one lifetime you actually remain in the same "class". Such as the so called working class which my soc. book says is 18000-35000(or somewhere around there..