Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We know there are real problems people are facing right now, and we don't want to downplay them — but sometimes being upper-middle ...

Middle-class consumers don’t need clickbait headlines to know the economy feels uncertain. As they enter 2026, many feel the squeeze not only when buying everyday items like groceries but also when ...

For millions of middle-class students, the American dream of higher education is slipping away. Not because of grades, ambition or effort, but because of a financial aid system that limits those who ...

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 ...

In 'Breakpoint', Saurabh Mukherjea et al define the Indian middle class as those who report earnings between Rs 5 lakh and Rs 1 crore in their tax returns, and why the authors think this set of the ...

People raised in lower-middle-class environments often make quicker, more pragmatic choices than wealthier peers. They accept ...

Hardworking, salaried, and still broke? India’s middle class might be stuck not from low incomebut from bad money habits, says Dime founder Chandralekha MR. In a LinkedIn post, Chandralekha called out ...

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 ...

The surprising resilience of the US economy this year is masking underlying weakness among low- and middle-income households, as higher-income Americans continue to drive growth. This dichotomy ...

The idea of the American dream is that anyone can go from humble beginnings to prosperity through hard work and not giving up. But in reality, making that journey from poverty to upper middle class is ...

Middle-class families don’t feel as secure as they once did. It isn’t because the poverty line is “really” $140,000, as Michael Green claimed in a viral essay last year. Yet the impoverished feeling ...