For years, discussions about the economy have been dominated by warnings about the decline of the middle class. Rising living ...

In a recent report with Stephen Rose, I argued that the narrative of a “shrinking middle class” was based on a kernel of truth, but one that undermines economic pessimism. We showed that while 36 ...

Once the backbone of the American dream, the middle class is gradually vanishing, and with it, the sense of security it provided for so many. Rising costs, stagnant wages, and economic shifts are ...

There's one thing rending the middle class in two. A new study from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) shows that the middle class isn’t shrinking in the traditional sense so much as it is ...

The personal finance website MoneyGeek analyzed incomes in U.S. cities and found that the number of middle-class households is quickly falling in some of them. According to its analysis, there are ...

For decades, the middle class was considered the backbone of the economy. Today, rising costs, housing pressures, debt, and ...

We’re pleased to report the American middle class is indeed “hollowing out”— because ever more Americans are earning their way into higher income brackets. That runs counter to today’s populist gloom ...

We’re pleased to report the American middle class is indeed “hollowing out”—because ever more Americans are earning their way into higher income brackets. That runs counter to today’s populist gloom ...