Keep your eye on the summit.

There's a peculiar kind of vertigo that comes with being an affluent American in 2026. You've made it. By nearly every historical metric, you are living in spectacular abundance. You have a six-figure ...

The middle class is getting smaller by some accounts, and it’s getting harder for some of its members to make ends meet.

Find out which states consider $80,000 as an upper-middle-class salary.

For many middle-class Americans, kids, marriage, and even a car now feel harder to afford. What that shift could mean for ...

Americans are often curious about "how they are doing" in relation to others in terms of their investments, both in terms of performance and to see whether they are "missing out" on something that ...

How Long Will It Last? One of the great myths about America is that we are a middle class society. That is, most of us fit between the extremes of wealth and poverty. This myth may have originated ...

The American middle class didn’t get much love over the weekend at the Iowa Freedom Summit — at least not directly. The event was the Republican presidential race’s de facto kickoff. And if the C-SPAN ...

Ellen Moncure and Joe Wong first met in school and then fell in love while living in the same dorm at the College of William and Mary. After graduation, they got married and, in 1999, moved to ...

A. Mechele Dickerson examines the creation of America's middle class and why it's struggling today. Owning a home, having stable employment and a retirement plan ... all of these are key elements of ...