In New Zealand today, there are up to 260,000 children in poverty, that is living in families with less than 60 percent of the median income. These households have to get by on less than $530 a week, if they are single parents, or $830 a week if they are a couple with two children.
This example text from a political party manifesto favourably references the middle class, e.g. white colar groups or the service sector