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

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In the quiet corners of Dhaka’s living rooms, a new kind of ghost is haunting the middle class. It isn't the ghost of what has ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A comprehensive new report released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) portrays a stark transformation of the American economy over the last four decades, revealing a deepening divide where the ...

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“The middle class is shrinking” might be the assertion of the decade. Progressives and populists alike use it to justify nearly all government interventions, from tariffs to minimum-wage hikes to ...

We’re pleased to report the American middle class is indeed “hollowing out”— because ever more Americans are earning their way into higher income brackets. That runs counter to today’s populist gloom ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. “The middle class is shrinking” might be the assertion of the decade. Progressives and populists alike use it to ...