The middle class may be the foundation upon which the United States was built, but a number of recent studies suggest the working class is being left in the dust. A study from the Pew Research Center ...

The middle class may be the foundation upon which the United States was built, but a number of recent studies suggest the working class is being left in the dust. A study from the Pew Research Center ...

You might be surprised to find out how the American middle class stacks up against the rest of the world. The middle class may be the foundation upon which the United States was built, but a number of ...

The new animated “bar chart race” visualization above is a dynamic version of the second static chart, and both show the percent shares of US households by total money income for three income ...

The middle class is often a topic of discussion among politicians and economists. But who makes up the middle class? It's a group that's been shrinking over the decades. To be middle class as a single ...

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Since the recession, America’s middle class has been shrinking as a whole, and fewer people than before feel they belong in it. Meanwhile, people in the top 1 (and 0.1 and 0.01) percent have seen a ...

Click the image to see a chart detailing the trade-offs the war has imposed on one working-class city–Cleveland, Ohio–and comparing those figures with the bounty the war has bestowed on the CEOs of ...