Sorry, I wasn't able to check on the current picture on this Julie>So, as it has seemed to me for a few years now, the so-called >"Middle Class" in America is rapidly disappearing, leading to a >country of vastly rich and vastly poor. Is this a trend similar in the UK? >In other European countries? still; the UK is the EU country where inequality has increased (Thatcher, Blair...); relative impoverishment of the middle class is another matter, I am not sure Judy Evans, Cardiff