Nancy Birdsall, founding president of the Center for Global Development, talked about the importance of building middle-class societies at a lecture entitled "Development in this Century: Building ...

David Madland and Nick Bunker argue that strengthening our middle class will be good for our educational system and for our economy. See also: The Middle Class Is Key to a Better-Educated Nation by ...

David Madland shows how a strong middle class is the key to higher GDP—not giving more money to the wealthy and hoping it trickles down. President Obama gestures while speaking about the economy on ...

If class theory has explanatory and descriptive power it should be possible to provide evidence that social classes exist as phenomena generic to modern industrial societies. This paper addresses this ...

The concept of class as a partner is dead." In calling for an industry-wide effort to analyze and improve the existing system, Somerville stressed six key issues for class that should be addressed.

Black people have higher blood pressure relative to whites; darker-skinned black people have higher blood pressure relative to lighter-skinned black people in some studies. These findings have been ...

In his first interview since becoming the leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV fielded a question about the polarization that is tearing societies ...

Sanjay Dutt of Tata Realty argues that affordable housing remains elusive for India's middle class due to high land costs, poor connectivity, and heavy taxation, despite government incentives. He ...

The American Medical Association (AMA) has joined a class-action lawsuit against Cigna, alleging the insurer underpaid for claims filed by providers in the contracted MultiPlan network. MultiPlan is ...