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Originally Posted by blankall
To be fair, a large number of homes either consist of a single person living alone or a single parent these days. Can't find the stats for Calgary specifically, but only about 2/3 of households consist of families with more than 1 person in them:
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Which points to an emerging reality of our society - that enduring marriages with two working adults are becoming essential to membership in the middle class and upper middle class. Conversely, the breakdown in lasting unions among the working class (and now the lower middle class) has been catastrophic for equality and social mobility.
That's why when we narrow the discussion to households with two working adults, we're already dealing with a more affluent population than average. Setting that as the baseline is kinda like setting adults with university degrees as the baseline.
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Originally Posted by blankall
When you look at that 16% as a proportion of households where you have two parents working full time, it's probably much higher and closer to 50%.
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From the stats I linked to earlier:
Median total income of couple economic families with children: $137k
So more than 16% of households with two working parents make $200k, but nowhere close to 50%.