Every class has a certain level in financial terms, the lower class has the lowest income and the upper class has the highest income. According to Mantsios' “Class in America,” the richest 1% of the American population holds 34% of the total national wealth, and while this is happening, nearly thirty-seven million Americans nationwide live in unremitting poverty (Mantsios 284- 6). There is a clear difference in the way these two groups of people live, one is extreme poverty and the other extreme poverty