For millions of working-class Americans, the moment they turn 62 feels like a finish line. After decades of physical labor, low wages, and exhausted savings, the option to finally collect Social ...

We’ve all heard terms like “middle class,” “lower class,” and “upper class,” but what do they really mean today? Class isn’t just about income or a number on a paycheck; it also reflects the types of ...

Though terms like these can’t fully encapsulate people’s specific financial realities, they can be useful. The differences between how the lower middle class and upper middle class are living can ...

As the years pass, the U.S. class system — or, more precisely, how we understand it — keeps changing. And there’s a geographic component to it all. What makes you “wealthy” in one state may not cut it ...

The American economic landscape is changing nearly every day and if you are not paying attention, you might miss out on what's happening and where you fall into the hierarchy. You might not think of ...

In last year’s State of the Union address, President Obama mentioned the middle class eight times. This year, Obama explicitly referenced this income group less, but still alluded to the middle class ...

The chart above is based on Census Bureau data on “Money Income of Families–Percent Distribution by Income Level, in Constant (2009) Dollars” from 1967 to 2009 (Table 696) for the family income ...