This report examines key changes in the economic status of the American middle class from 1970 to 2023 and its demographic attributes in 2022. The historical analysis is based on U.S. Census Bureau ...

Defining yourself as being within the American middle class can be tricky, as it depends on everything from where you live to ...

During his State of the Union address, President Biden said the middle class built this country. The middle class describes the socioeconomic state between working class and wealthy, where one ...

The share of Americans in the middle class is shrinking as rising costs outpace many workers' pay. While wages have grown in recent years, inflation and higher expenses for essentials like housing and ...

For generations, buying a home was the surest ticket to middle-class security — a way to build wealth, plant roots, and pass something down to the next generation. Today, that promise is under siege.

(NEXSTAR) — It can be hard to tell if you rank as middle class, especially when it feels like your paycheck doesn’t go as far as it once did (one government analysis suggests you need at least $10,000 ...

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 ...

Class sizes throughout Oregon are near their lowest point in years, thanks to a potent combination of declining enrollment in public schools and an infusion of federal pandemic recovery funds, new ...

Lucy Lazarony is an experienced personal finance journalist and writer who got her start in 1998 writing about financial topics. She writes accessible and easy-to-understand articles about credit, ...