OPINION: Over the past fifty years, corporate power and policy choices have weakened labor, squeezed the middle class, and ...

On Thanksgiving Day 2024, the broad mass of the American population has precious little to be thankful for. Inflated costs for all necessities—housing, food, healthcare, childcare, transport—continue ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Every coherent society has a social ideal—an image of what the superior person looks like. In America, from ...

In late-20th-century music, the elusiveness of the American Dream is a recurring theme. From Stevie Wonder’s ode to a boy “born in hard time Mississippi” in 1973 to Bruce Springsteen’s anthems to the ...

Being middle class in America used to mean something—something socially transformative, something even revolutionary. The American middle class represented a form of national social order never before ...

The top 10% of wealthy Americans now control 60% of the nation’s wealth, while the poorer half of the country holds only 6%, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office. The new report, ...

The 2025 U.S. elections signaled a political awakening as voters rejected the status quo and embraced leaders promising ...

The upper middle class earns more than the typical American, and has disposable income to live a nice lifestyle – although they aren't rich in the sense that they don't have to worry about money or ...

Boston Road provides 154 units of housing for formerly homeless people, many of them seniors and living with HIV/AIDS, as well as low-income working adults from the ...

With slogans and in social-media posts, the former president has dribbled out ideas that, together, would fundamentally change how taxes are collected in the U.S. By Andrew Duehren Andrew Duehren ...