Originally Posted by Lenny2

Sure but a "middle class family" in America, pre-FDR's new deal lived in tenement housing, a family of 6-8 people living in two rooms and sharing a community bathroom with 10 other families.
ALL of the males in the family would work at a factory, 80 hours per week, just so they could put food on the table (food being a family's biggest expense in those days)

It was a far far cry from what we consider "middle class" today.
So when I say there was no middle class back then, by today's standards, that's an accurate assesment.
Today's lower class (welfare) has a higher standard of living than the "middle" class did in those days.