When asked how they identify their social class 54% of Americans said they belong to the middle class, according to one survey.

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 ...

About half of U.S. adults (52%) lived in middle-income households in 2022, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the most recent available government data. Roughly three-in-ten (28%) were in ...

The middle class is hollowing out; Americans overall are increasingly falling short financially while a few are getting ...

Earning six figures feels like it should come with a certain amount of ease. Not wealth, necessarily, but comfort. A mortgage you can manage. Groceries you don’t agonize over. Maybe a vacation once a ...

Here's how you might just stack up to the average middle-class American in 2026.

For many middle-class Americans, kids, marriage, and even a car now feel harder to afford. What that shift could mean for ...

Let’s take a break from the war and follow up on an important economic story, and that is the continued mobility of the great American middle class. There’s a lot more prosperity here than left-wing ...

Estimates for what counts as a middle-class income can vary depending on where you live and the national median income. But can the middle-class still afford to live somewhere nice, or are they stuck ...