A lot of people believe all they need to do to become wealthy is to earn more money or to save what they do have. This isn’t all that surprising, considering how many people subscribe to the idea that ...
Determining whether you’re rich or part of the middle class can be tricky. So many factors can eat into your paycheck, such as the cost of living, grocery bills and how many people you have in your ...
Determining whether you’re rich or part of the middle class can be tricky. So many factors can eat into your income, such as the cost of living, grocery bills and how many people you have in your care ...
Here are six signs someone might be upper-middle class, even if it doesn't always feel that way.
As much as we might try to act like class differences don’t exist for kids, money is a huge determining factor in how children are raised, what opportunities they’re exposed to, and what they’re ...
To some degree, the data tells us what we already intuitively know. But that doesn’t make it any less sobering. Between 2000 and 2014, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center, the ...
Living a middle-class life is a blessing and a curse. On one hand, you’re one financial calamity away from devastation. On the other hand, you have many perks that both the rich and the poor often ...
While many middle-class retirees focus on stretching their savings, wealthy retirees take a different approach: they keep building. From strategic investing to assembling a team of financial experts, ...
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How the rich are squeezing the middle class dry

The middle class is being squeezed while the rich keep everything. This video explains why governments refuse to touch extreme wealth and instead demand more from ordinary people. The math is brutal.
Led by Thomas Piketty, leftist economists protest that inequalities are getting intolerable, so the richest should be taxed ...