America's middle class has been shrinking for the past 50 years. While middle class Americans remain the biggest income group by number of people, the same can't be said of the aggregate income earned ...

While some people have varying ideas of what it takes to be considered "middle class," Pew Research Center breaks it down for 20 major U.S. metros. In the South Florida metro of Miami, Fort Lauderdale ...

The American middle class is being crushed. A recent piece in the Wall Street Journal tells a terrifying story concerning the state of the most important part of American—and really any—society.

The American middle class, those who are neither rich nor poor, has been shrinking in the past few decades while the number of people at the bottom and the very top of the country's economic spectrum ...

This report analyzes data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplements (ASEC) of the Current Population Survey (CPS) to study the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the financial wellbeing of U ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Data from the Pew Research Center shows that America’s middle class has been declining over time, dropping from 61% of the population in 1971 to just 50% in 2021. For that ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – With looming news about inflation and rising prices, you might wonder what it takes to be in ‘middle class’ in New Mexico. While there’s no clear definition of who is middle ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how healthcare business and policy impact consumers. With inflation growing 7.9% last month—a rate not seen in the ...

Economic status is not etched in stone. The loss of a job or an unexpected illness may push a middle-class family down a notch on the economic ladder. But fortunes can improve, too, with a graduation ...

Home prices across the U.S. are surging, while a shortage of houses for sale has resulted in cut-throat competition for those in the market to buy a property. That confluence of trends has taken the ...

The term "class," first widely used in the 19th century, is still used to characterize a group of individuals who occupy the same tier on the economic ladder. Today, social classes are divided into ...