America's middle class is not just feeling squeezed, it is objectively shrinking and losing ground in the national economy.

We’re pleased to report the American middle class is indeed “hollowing out”—because ever more Americans are earning their way into higher income brackets. That runs counter to today’s populist gloom ...

Many adults experience a loss of control later in life when they've grown up poor, according to a study from the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, but when they grow up middle class, then ...

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

In the recent Joe Rogan interview with Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont made a simple and empathetic argument: People today are angry because, decades ago, families had money to spare and didn ...

The comment sections of TikTok’s “middle-class house tours” feature thousands of Americans arguing about what qualifies as middle class in 2025. Viral videos of average homes are sparking comment ...

A nonprofit is walking Kansans through the steps to get out of poverty.

Think you're middle class in Mississippi? Cost of living, inflation and the community you live can help define what qualifies as "middle class," but the idea is always changing. It's usually defined ...

It's time to move the civil rights movement off the front pages and into the history books, somewhere between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The movement was always a black middle class ...