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

When more families cross into the upper middle class, that's a success. Don't let politicians sabotage upward mobility.

The share of families classified as upper-middle class has jumped from 10% in 1979 to 31% in 2024, the report found. For the ...

Data now shows that comfortable amenities like gym memberships and rooftop solar panels are no longer as commonplace in the ...

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 ...

Claims of a ‘hollowed-out’ center are difficult to square with data showing an overwhelmingly upward directional movement.

The top 10 percent and the bottom 20 percent of the city are swelling.

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 ...

If you have these things in your home, you’re at least a tiny bit wealthier than you might think. Most people who grew up poor didn't get the same luxuries as everyone else. From low-quality schools ...

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 ...