What appears to be the world's most prosperous nation reveals a strange contradiction: the richer the country looks, ...

Trump and DOGE's job cuts and DEI scrutiny have threatened a pathway to the American Dream for these Black federal workers.

Many Black, middle-class NYC property owners say they’d be among the biggest victims of the Democratic Socialists of ...

The comment sections of TikTok’s “middle-class house tours” feature thousands of Americans arguing about what qualifies as middle class in 2025. Viral videos of average homes are sparking comment ...

Ohio has lost one in three manufacturing jobs since 1999, and economists warn the state's trajectory may preview where the rest of America is heading as the 2026 midterms approach ...

Affirmative action occupies a telling place in a nation painfully aware of its racial inequities yet painfully divided over how to solve them. Great numbers of Americans support the overarching goals ...

The good news is that Americans have never been richer. The bad news is that most of them don’t feel like it. There has been tremendous growth in income and wealth in the U.S. in the last half century ...

Village market : encounters in black diasporic suburbs -- Children of the Yam : enslaved African to middle class black in the U.S., Haiti and Jamaica -- Blood pudding : forbidden neighbors on Jim Crow ...

Nearly one-third of middle-class Americans aged 50 to 85 feel less confident about retirement than they did last year, a recent survey finds. Here's what you can do about it.

With rising cost of living, inflation and tariff costs (along with struggling employment levels), is the middle class still capable of attaining the American dream? To answer such a question, ...