With the Great Decompression, incomes rise for everyone but much faster for the affluent.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ABOUT 41% of Jerusalem families suffer from poverty, compared to about 20% in the rest of the country. (photo credit: Liba Farkash ...

As national policies pivot toward rural and lower-income support, the urban middle class is being left out in the cold, ...

East Asia and the Pacific has dramatically reduced poverty, but only about a third of its population has achieved true economic security, with another third remaining vulnerable to slipping back into ...

Many adults experience a loss of control later in life when they've grown up poor, according to a study from the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, but when they grow up middle class, then ...

America's middle class is not just feeling squeezed, it is objectively shrinking and losing ground in the national economy. The share of adults who once sat comfortably between poverty and affluence ...

In the recent Joe Rogan interview with Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont made a simple and empathetic argument: People today are angry because, decades ago, families had money to spare and didn ...

Americans’ finances are continuing to improve. Median household income rose to $61,400 in 2017, up 1.8% from a year earlier, according to data released by the US Census Bureau on Wednesday. The report ...

Uganda’s middle class, it seems, exists more in statistics than in lived reality, visible, yet fragile, and still battling ...

Don't let the fear of going broke keep you up at night.

The true middle class has shrunk in recent years. While many people still classified as “middle class” are experiencing a slight shift in incomes, others are being pushed into poverty by basic ...

Think you're middle class in Mississippi? Cost of living, inflation and the community you live can help define what qualifies as "middle class," but the idea is always changing. It's usually defined ...