Robert Kiyosaki, the famous author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, shares powerful insights about why the rich keep getting richer while the middle class often struggles. According to him, the key lies in ...

A lot of people believe all they need to do to become wealthy is to earn more money or to save what they do have. This isn’t all that surprising, considering how many people subscribe to the idea that ...

Baby boomers may have had the best financial start of all the generations — coming of age when salaries kept up with the cost of living and goods and services were affordable — but that doesn’t mean ...

As a generational cohort, annual incomes among Gen X in the United States are all over the map, especially when compared to the older baby boomers or the younger generations of millennials and Gen Z.

Determining whether you’re rich or part of the middle class can be tricky. So many factors can eat into your income, such as cost of living, grocery bills and how many people you have in your care. It ...

This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. We are living in a new Gilded Age. The first, from roughly 1870 to 1890, was marked by dramatic ...

Living a middle-class life is a blessing and a curse. On one hand, you’re one financial calamity away from devastation. On the other hand, you have many perks that both the rich and the poor often ...

When we think of middle class life, several things come to mind: owning a home, stable childcare, food in the pantry, a sense of security. But as the rich get richer in Massachusetts, the middle class ...

Your net worth is the total result of your savings, investments and assets minus debts, and in retirement, it’s one of the most accurate measures of financial health after you stop working. Unlike ...