The income needed to maintain middle-class status in the United States has risen—and Rhode Island is in the top 15 most expensive states, according to calculations by SmartAsset. Reaching middle-class ...

An annual household income of at least $131,566 is now needed to qualify as upper-middle class in New York state — but you need even more money in neighboring New Jersey and Connecticut According to ...

If you’ve lived in California for a while, you’ve probably noticed that what once felt “comfortable” financially doesn’t quite stretch as far as it used to. Prices for housing, groceries and even a ...

At first glance, it might not look like there are that many differences between upper middle class homes and middle class homes. Both can be quite extravagant-looking and lavish, but compared to upper ...

Gina Young is an accomplished finance writer who has written for publications including SuperMoney, Examiner, Lexington Law, Talk Markets, and CreditRepair.com. Throughout her career in finance, Gina ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misspelled Jeremy Horpedahl's name. America’s middle class is spooked about the economy. Consumer confidence has been falling for most of ...

SACRAMENTO — A former state legislative leader says fellow Democrats in Sacramento have long ignored the housing needs of middle-class Californians. And he has a plan to help them buy a new home.

While the bill has been touted as a way to offer financial relief to Americans, it doesn’t exactly give much help. “This thing is mostly smoke and mirrors for upper middle class families (that ...

Personal income tax rates for the middle class in New York state have fallen by greater amounts in other years. Hochul has repeated this claim, but her staff told PolitiFact that she meant to say the ...

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 ...

It's hard to determine a person's status based on their appearance alone, as not all wealth is flashy. Some of the most telling habits of upper-class people have nothing to do with showing off. They ...

The Iranian middle class, long a force of political moderation, stability, economic growth, and the base of the country’s reform movement, is shrinking fast under the pressure of Western sanctions, ...