America's middle class is not just feeling squeezed, it is objectively shrinking and losing ground in the national economy. The share of adults who once sat comfortably between poverty and affluence ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When policymakers talk about child support, they often focus on poverty or delinquency. For decades that focus made sense. The modern child-support enforcement system was built to protect low-income ...

The true middle class has shrunk in recent years. While many people still classified as “middle class” are experiencing a slight shift in incomes, others are being pushed into poverty by basic ...

MANILA, Philippines — Millions of Filipino families remain at risk of poverty even as the Philippines moves closer to ...

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 ...

Path to Growth – Building and sustaining upper middle class status comes from increasing income, investing in real estate for passive cash flow, and using tax-efficient strategies to accelerate wealth ...

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

The report depicts a deepening social emergency in which hunger and chronic financial stress are spreading from Israel’s weakest populations into the lower middle class. Latet’s 2025 Alternative ...