I recently read this article in The Chicago Tribune concerning the ambiguous definition of the “middle-class” and how freely the term is tossed around in conversation, the media and in politics. The ...

Republicans and Democrats don't agree on much, but they do agree on this: the middle class. At their conventions, the two parties will compete fiercely for its support. Republicans will accuse Barack ...

If you ask Hillary Clinton (as well as Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama), families pulling in $250k per year are definitively middle class. This classification, Bryce Covert points out in the ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor and Republican Rep. Tom Cotton sparred Wednesday over Pryor’s comment that the middle class includes households making up to $200,000, as the ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Sherry Linkon, co-director of the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University, about the... The Difficulty Of Defining What 'Middle Class' Is ROBERT ...