With the Great Decompression, incomes rise for everyone but much faster for the affluent.

It's not surprising that costs go up over time, but these 11 everyday essentials that were affordable 10 years ago are so expensive now that the middle class can't afford them anymore.

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 ...

Nobody ever sat me down and said, “We’re lower middle class.” I figured it out in bits and pieces. The way my mom would put ...

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 ...

Americans’ finances are continuing to improve. Median household income rose to $61,400 in 2017, up 1.8% from a year earlier, according to data released by the US Census Bureau on Wednesday. The report ...

MANILA, Philippines — Based on most recent data and projections, a majority of our people are poor. The upper class (rich and upper-income) constitutes about 1.4 percent of the population. This small ...

Uganda’s middle class, it seems, exists more in statistics than in lived reality, visible, yet fragile, and still battling ...

Think you're middle class in Mississippi? Cost of living, inflation and the community you live can help define what qualifies as "middle class," but the idea is always changing. It's usually defined ...

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 ...