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Questions - Income Levels - October 31-November 1, 2011

Americans Raise The Bar On How Much Income Makes You Wealthy
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National Survey of 1,000 Adults
Conducted October 31-November 1, 2011

By Rasmussen Reports

 

 

1* I am now going to ask you whether people who earn a certain amount of money are living in poverty, lower-income, middle-income, upper-income or wealthy? First, what about someone who earns $20,000 a year?

 

 

2* What about someone who earns $50,000 a year?

 

 

3* What about someone who earns $100,000 a year?

 

 

4* What about someone who earns $250,000 a year?

 

 

5* What about someone who earns $500,000 a year?

 

 

6* Have you ever earned, or are you likely to earn, at least $250,000 a year?

 

 

7* Is America better off today than it was five years ago?

 

 

8* If you could live anywhere in the world, would you live in the United States?

 

 

9* Have Americans given President Obama and congressional Democrats enough time to make their agenda work the way they say it will?

 

 

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence