On a popular Reddit community dedicated to middle-class finances, the question “Am I middle class?” pops up frequently. It is ...

Years of rising costs for necessities like housing, transportation and healthcare are causing many Americans to feel like financial comfort — once a feature of middle-class life — is getting further ...

Yoni Appelbaum kicks off “Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity,” his insightful book about our national housing crisis, with a personal story that will ...

Denise Smith began working for the federal government a half century ago, during President Richard Nixon's administration. She was still in high school when she accepted a post as a Navy intern in ...

Labor-force participation, especially among men of prime working age, has fallen to levels not seen since the Great Depression. Join us as Chris DeMuth, Oren Cass, Nicholas Eberstadt, Iain Murray, and ...

American historian and the author of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, Nancy Isenberg, calls Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance a peddler of the “self-made man ...

The urge to reclaim time aligns with the perspective touted by the financial independence, retire early movement, known as FIRE, which encourages people, typically high-income earners, to save and ...

It may be financial security - more than income level - that characterizes the upper class On a popular Reddit community dedicated to middle-class finances, the question "Am I middle class?" pops up ...