Recently released data from the Census Bureau shows median household income is on the rise in southwest Illinois.

Home care, assisted living costs for older adults have surged over the past five years, straining affordability for middle class families, AARP said.

The lower middle class doesn't overspend — they live in an economic architecture where proximity to wealth inflates every ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced his $127 billion budget proposal at a press conference on Feb. 17, 2026. Stephen Yang for NY Post Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared war on the city’s middle class Tuesday, ...

Jordan McGillis writes in “Why the Middle Class Feels Poor” (op-ed, Feb. 12) that middle-class families feel they’re “losing ever more ground to the upper middle class.” He calls this “intensifying ...

Gina Young is an accomplished finance writer who has written for publications including SuperMoney, Examiner, Lexington Law, Talk Markets, and CreditRepair.com. Throughout her career in finance, Gina ...

Last year, people in the U.S. made an estimated $4.7 billion selling their plasma. Donation centers are popping up in middle-class neighborhoods, including suburban strip malls and college towns.

Middle-class families don’t feel as secure as they once did. It isn’t because the poverty line is “really” $140,000, as Michael Green claimed in a viral essay last year. Yet the impoverished feeling ...

Photo Caption: A guest room at a Magic Moment Hotel & Kids Club, which is part of the Dazzler Select by Wyndham brand in Florida. The big hotel groups face a quality crisis at mid-market properties.

Concerns about the affordability of education, housing, health care, having a family and retirement are driving economic anxieties, a New York Times/Siena poll found. The New York Times/Siena poll ...

In the United States, a person’s net worth is a barometer of their financial standing, particularly as they approach retirement. This figure, calculated by subtracting liabilities from assets, varies ...