claim: "the median income of a middle class family went down $2,100 from 2001 to 2007."
author: joe biden
evidence_1: feb 21, 2013 ... younger households have pared their credit card balances. in 2010 only 39% of  them carried a balance, down from 48% in 2007 and 50% in 2001. the median  outstanding amount owed among younger households with balances has fallen  over the decade from $2,500 in 2001 to $2,100 in 2007 and ...
evidence_2: may 19, 2007 ... less well known is how this growth is reshaping the lifestyle of indian families.  mgi's research portrays a dramatic transformation that will touch indians up and  down the income pyramid, from the poorest rural farmer to the wealthiest it  entrepreneur. companies that fail to understand the unique desires and ...
evidence_3: jun 14, 2013 ... the federal tax and transfer system reduced the gini index of income inequality  by 17.1 percent in 2007, down from a 23.4 percent reduction in in 1979. ... but  between 1979 and 2007, the top 5 percent saw average annual income growth of  2 percent, compared with 0.6 percent growth for the middle fifth of ...
evidence_4: lives of middle-class families, including access to higher education, balancing  work and caregiv- ing obligations ..... the real median income for working-age  households fell by about $2,100 between 2000 and 2007, or ... three decades,  the relationship has broken down and middle-class incomes have diverged  sharply from.
evidence_5: vietnam's shift from a centrally planned to a market economy has transformed the  country from one of the poorest in the world into a lower middle-income ... the  proportion of the population living below the national poverty line (gso-wb  poverty line) reached 13.5 percent in 2014—down from close to 60 percent in  1993.