Five years ago, when The Times began The Upshotthe idea of exploring issues through a mix of traditional text, data visualizations, images and interactive features was still relatively new. Some of its experiments, notably election night needleswere instant hits. One of the earliest Upshot articles attracted a lot of attention in Canada. Along with David, I spoke with Canadians about their economic hopes and disappointments. Sign up. Both sides of canadians make more money than americans border have experienced economic changes, for better and worse, since. But the employment outlook is not uniformly bright across the country. And earlier this week I was in my hometown, Windsor, Ontario, where Fiat Chrysler Automobiles will eliminate a third shift at its minivan plant in September and lay off about 1, people. Economists sometimes use median income to define the middle class. Median income is the point at which half the families in a country earn more and the other half earns .