America's middle class is not just feeling squeezed, it is objectively shrinking and losing ground in the national economy.

Yes, the middle class is hollowing out—because more are rising upward.

Across the United States, the line between middle and upper-middle income is shifting, and it looks very different in Boston ...

Spoiler alert: It costs much more in 2025 to be considered “middle class” than it did in 1990. And that makes sense, given that both wages and the cost of living have increased significantly over the ...

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 ...

A new report shows the metro outperforms most of the U.S. on middle-class affordability, but many are still struggling to ...

DENVER (KDVR) –The income that qualifies for “middle-class” has changed drastically over the last decade, and the range for Colorado’s middle-class has jumped more than most states, according to a new ...

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 ...

Many of these weren’t considered luxuries a decade ago, they were part of everyday middle-class life.

There's a lot of variation within each group. The top 5% of earners, for example, bring in $295,000 or more per year. That's nearly 10x what someone in the lowest quintile earns annually. It's also ...

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.