![Are You In Acadiana’s Middle Class? A New Calculator Has The Answer](http://townsquare.media/site/36/files/2012/08/Christopher-Furlong-Getty-Images.jpg?w=630&h=420&zc=1&s=0&a=t&q=89&w=980&q=75)
Are You In Acadiana’s Middle Class? A New Calculator Has The Answer
We commonly hear the term 'middle class', but what does it mean in Acadiana? A new Pew Research calculator hopes to help you answer that question. A form that's posted on the Pew FactTank lets you select your state, location, pre-tax household income, and size of household. The calculator takes that information and ranks it with data from as recent as 2016.
For example, this is the ranking for a Lafayette family making $50,000 per year before taxes.
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This is the ranking for a Lafayette family making $100,000 per year before taxes.
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And this is the ranking for a Lafayette family making $150,000 per year before taxes.
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