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

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 ...

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

You know it's bad when living paycheck to paycheck becomes the new status symbol. Nearly a quarter of middle-income individuals struggle to pay all of their bills every month, according to a study ...

If anything, a slew of economic data suggests a middle class that’s actually shrinking. Mid-wage manufacturing and other jobs are disappearing due to automation and outsourcing, while lower-income ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a generational cohort, annual incomes among Gen X in the United States are all over the map, especially when compared to the older baby boomers or the younger generations of millennials and Gen Z.