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Isn't "median income" a false measurement, though? That, of course there has to be a median, but how does median fare against "average"? If half the population makes over(for example) $100k grand a year and half under, where does the real drop in income start to show? How many of those half-unders make what is considered middle-class? As you can see, I failed math...
As for the comment that the median income will not support the nuclear family anymore, that would greatly depend on where that family is. If the median income is, say again, $100K, that family would do really well in several of the southern states and a couple of the midwestern ones. They'd struggle, perhaps, in California, New Jersey and Manhattan. That same $100k might be earned differently in those states, ie; blue collar on the MidAtlantic Coast, high end executive in Alabama.
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