$95,000 a year is the new “middle class”

Farooq Jeelani
5 min readMay 30, 2020

How America is running out of good paying jobs to support the middle class

Photo by Taylor Wilcox on Unsplash

We did it to ourselves. We got married, had kids, and wanted to raise a family. I chose a job with good work hours, she wanted to take an active role in our kids lives and is at home. According to most articles, we should be living a satisfying life.

Life is what you make of it —…

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Farooq Jeelani

Reader, commenter, and writer. Informed by my experiences as a parent, entrepreneur, and attorney.