How to define the “middle class”, these French people who claim to be the losers of the health crisis?

Difficult to find a definition of the middle class “on which everyone agrees, indicates the journalist Dorothée Lachaud, present Thursday, January 6 on the set of 19/20. For Credoc, these are households located between the poorest 30% and the richest 20%.“The Observatory of Inequalities and INSEE provide more precise information. They are based on the disposable income of the French,”that is, what you have left to live on once taxes have been paid and after having received social assistance“, specifies the journalist.

You are thus part of the middle class “if your disposable income is between € 1,265 and € 2,275 per month for a single person, and between € 3,302 and € 5,743 per month for a couple with two children“. Many families feel that everything is increasing, and indeed,”when we look at these numbers, recognizes Dorothée Lachaud, There is a certainty, consumer prices have indeed increased, by 2.8% in December compared to last yearIt should be noted, however, that the French have also saved more in the face of Covid-19, also increasing their disposable income.