The delineation between America’s middle class and its subset of “upper-middle” class can be a murky one, especially on a ...

A growing number of middle-class families are struggling to afford the basics of housing, childcare, food, transportation, and healthcare. These cost increases mean that even families classified as ...

It's no secret that the American middle class has been steadily shrinking: in the past 50 years, the share of Americans living in middle-class households dropped from 61% to 52% between 1971 and 2024, ...

America's middle class is not just feeling squeezed, it is objectively shrinking and losing ground in the national economy. The share of adults who once sat comfortably between poverty and affluence ...

"The middle class is shrinking" might be the assertion of the decade. Progressives and populists alike use it to justify nearly all government interventions, from tariffs to minimum-wage hikes to ...

Upper class, middle class, lower class. There's no definitive answer on which class you belong to, since those designations are an American idea that loosely categorizes workers and families into ...