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Opinion: J.D. Vance paints himself as an everyman, but he grew up in Top 10% of households
As the vice presidential candidates battle it out for the support of the heartland each claim an allegiance to the working class.
According to his memoir, when Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio was young, 9 or 10, his mother and stepfather had a combined income of over $100,000.
Back then, in 1993, I was 13 and living in Missouri. My parents were separated. They might have earned $35,000 working full-time, combined. I know how unattainable $100,000 was back then in small towns in the heartland.
Going back three decades to 1993, a household income of $100,000 in the United States put a family in the 95th percentile; a household income of $100,000 was an exclusive amount of money. And, it wasn’t middle class money; it was upper class household income.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-j-d-vance-paints-170101415.html