Trying to define the middle class in any region can be a tricky task, as it’s not necessarily based just on salary, but also on how far that salary gets you. The American South, even with its deeply ...

Foreign Policy – The world has never agreed on a universally accepted definition of what constitutes “middle class.” The broadest classification is too low; it suggests the middle class is anyone who ...

The rise of the global middle class is one of the great economic triumphs of our time, or so we’re told repeatedly. “For the first time, the number of people in the middle class surpasses those living ...

The middle class is not actually one neat income class in the United States but a wide swath of income earners and socioeconomic groups, from $50,000 to $150,000 annual salary, whose dollars stretch ...