Experts say the child tax credit is a crucial measure to offset the tax plan's elimination of personal exemptions, which currently provide significant relief for middle income families. (businessinsider.com)
Energy costs eat up ~ 4 % of the income of an middle to upper middle income family while it can eat up 20 % of the income of a low income household. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
If the ranks of middle income families has declined, where did all those people go? (payscale.com)