In 1980 middle-class families lived in a world of Atari consoles, rotary phones and station wagons with wood paneling. The median U.S. household income was $21,020, enough to buy a modest home, a ...

The top 1% saw its share of household income double from 1979 to 2022, going from 9% to 18%, the CBO said. The middle cohort ...

Understanding the average monthly expenses of retirees can help you budget more effectively and approach this next chapter ...

In recent decades, researchers have identified a dramatic nationwide shift: The American middle-class family is struggling. The middle class is a social group that is defined mainly by income. A 2024 ...

Middle-class New Yorkers are going more than $12,000 into the red every year just to make ends meet, a depressing new study has uncovered. GOBankingRates analyzed America’s most populous cities to ...

Spoiler alert: It costs much more in 2025 to be considered “middle class” than it did in 1990. And that makes sense, given that both wages and the cost of living have increased significantly over the ...