The income needed to be considered middle class in North Carolina is rising.
North Carolina is among the cheapest states for middle-class living, according to a recent study from personal finance website SmartAsset . The Tar Heel State came in at No. 34 on the site’s ranking of states by middle-class income ranges.
To calculate those ranges, the site used the definition of middle income from the Pew Research Center : two-thirds to double the median household income of each state…