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A few weeks ago, we asked you what you want to know about inequality in California. Hundreds of you responded. The first question we’ll answer comes from Johnny Good, a 76-year-old retiree in San Marcos, Calif., who worked in the state from 1966 to 2009.

“Reporters are constantly using the terms ‘middle class,’ ‘low wage earner’ and ‘rich,’ never defining what they mean. How much in dollars is a middle class annual income in different parts of California? What exactly in bucks does it mean?”

As my colleagues Tara Siegel Bernard and Karl Russell wrote in this look at four middle-class family budgets, most people believe they belong in the middle class, but its boundaries and markers are subject to interpretation.

So recently, my colleague Marie Tae McDermott asked Sarah Bohn, director of research at the Public Policy Institute of California about how we might approach the question in the Golden State.