What is your annual income and party affiliation?

[Joe Biden 2020]

$27K (D)

[Joe Biden 2020]

The fun thing about the bracket system is that it pretty much gives us a starting point from which to frame the tax/class debate.

The bottom pretty much is poverty, the second bracket pretty much is the working poor, the third is the Middle Class, the Fourth is the Upper Middle Class, the fifth is pretty much the modestly wealthy and the top bracket are the very wealthy.

Its funny, I'm near the upper end of that 2nd bracket, the bracket your post defines as "working poor", but I don't consider myself poor at all.  I consider myself more lower middle class than anything.  I'm not wealthy by any means, but at $27,000 a year, a bachelor, living in one of the cheapest states in the  union, Oklahoma, I feel pretty doggone good about where I'm at.  In 2012, I should be making $31,000 a year by going permanent at my job in either November or December this year.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I'm in the second bracket, though sitting on the cusp of the third.

The second bracket most certainly is "working poor" if you have a family to support and all that, but it's perfectly sustainable for people like me.

I totally agree with that last sentence.  $27,000 is perfectly fine for a bachelor, but trying to support a family, even just a marraige, and it sucks.