With rising cost of living, inflation and tariff costs (along with struggling employment levels), is the middle class still capable of attaining the American dream? To answer such a question, ...

With an ever-increasing cost of living in America, tariff price hikes and an uncertain labor market, it can often feel like city living simply isn’t cost-effective for the American middle class.

The American middle class has changed a lot in recent decades. This economic marker has gone from being an inclusive classifier containing a significant majority of Americans (and earning the "middle" ...

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- More than six in 10 people in the American middle class cite enjoying life (63%) and being healthy and fit (61%) as top priorities in life, according to ...

The good news is that Americans have never been richer. The bad news is that most of them don’t feel like it. There has been tremendous growth in income and wealth in the U.S. in the last half century ...

Defining yourself within the American middle classes can be tricky. Your social class is based on more than just your salary; it depends on everything from where you live to how you live. In the U.S., ...

Remember when a family vacation meant piling into the station wagon for a road trip to the coast, staying in a budget motel, and calling it a win? Those days feel like ancient history. The middle ...

The good news is that Americans have never been richer. The bad news is that most of them don’t feel like it. There has been tremendous growth in income and wealth in the U.S. in the last half century ...

These photos show how the middle-class American Dream was commonly understood in past decades. During the post-war years through the 1970s, many families associated economic stability with ...

The drive vacation is still the most realistic way for the American middle class to see their own country. We’ve spent 30 years quietly dismantling the infrastructure that made it possible. Hotels in ...