Stocks are fine, but stock yields are low and stocks are much more volatile. Lets be frank. Poverty, as defined by the government, takes into account income and the number of people in the household. ", [account deleted]'s comment from discussion "What screams Upper Middle Class? Note: The authors of the Pew report note that the values were in 2020 dollars and scaled to reflect a three-person household." You can be Affluent and not have achieved wealth yet, but all wealthy people would also be affluent (but not all affluent people are wealthy when were using money as the barometer and not our feelings.). Thank you for including different household sizes in your statistics. What is considered upper class in America? When my parents immigrated to Canada, they were so poor that they stayed at a friends apartment and slept on a mattress that they found in a garba e=2;e