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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Folks were discussing this today on a new thread, which is (rightly) locked with folks routed here.

I just read the article. The big thing that struck me is that the Cressel family is LMC, if middle class at all. I don't think it makes sense to use them as an example of the "middle class" being squeezed out of Disney. [/quote]

Literally dead-on national median household income, don't live in a high cost area, but please tell us how that isn't "middle".[/quote]

There were three single women traveling here (mother of the kids, grandmother of the kids, and great grandmother of the kids) -- no husbands and no support, financial or otherwise, from any men to be seen. I raise this not because I think a woman needs a man, but because this is the primary face of poverty in America. Neither the mom nor the grandmother are employed full time (it appears the great grandmother is retired/unemployed, but it isn't clear), and they do not appear to have college degrees. They certainly are not working jobs that require them. We likely have a low level of education here. And of course the journalist literally went out and found someone who is obese and using a scooter to tell this story (and made sure to photograph them at every turn); if you know anything about Disney, this is the clearest LC signaling this journalist could have found, and it is also a lightning rod for hatred in the context of conversations about visits to Disney.

And then of course there is the math -- as a PP pointed out, "median" doesn't mean much here. And that "median HHI" of 80k that you came up with is taking both the grandmother and the mother's incomes together. That isn't really how HHI is tallied. You have a single woman with a HHI of 40k. And a single mother with multiple kids/dependents with a HHI of 40k -- and for a family of four (I think she has 3 kids, right?), that is above the poverty line, but barely.

So ... LMC at best. [/quote]

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