You might look around your neighborhood at retired folks in their sixties, living comfortably in homes they've owned for ...

Across the country, middle-class Americans are discovering that expenses their parents treated as routine milestones now feel ...

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The top 10 percent and the bottom 20 percent of the city are swelling.

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Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Literary Hub. Alissa Quart on the lessons from Mamdani’s campaign.

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A new report shows the metro outperforms most of the U.S. on middle-class affordability, but many are still struggling to ...

Economists say that a typical middle-class family today is richer than one in the 1960s. Americans in their 20s and 30s don’t believe it. By Sabrina Tavernise A nerdy economics essay recently went ...

In 1980, neither China nor India had much representation in the “global middle class” — people who neither belong to the bottom half of the income distribution nor rank among the top 10% worldwide.

Are you in the middle class? In recent years, the lines between classes have gotten blurred, especially with inflation and other economic factors eroding your money. According to the Pew Research ...