In recent decades, researchers have identified a dramatic nationwide shift: The American middle-class family is struggling. The middle class is a social group that is defined mainly by income. A 2024 ...

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.

What is considered middle class? It might take more money than you think to reach this income tier. The Pew Research Center defines middle class, or middle-income households, as those with incomes ...

Walk into any middle-class kitchen in the early '90s and you'd find those bright yellow boxes stacked in the pantry. The Cracker Stackers were the most common and original Lunchable out there. The ...

The middle class is a social group that is defined mainly by income. A 2024 report based on 2022 data released by Pew Research Center describes an American middle-class family as one that makes about ...