Every now and then, we all face struggles—some big, some small. But depending on your circumstances, what feels like a serious issue to you might look very different to someone else. Once upon a time ...

Feeling squeezed in the middle class? Financial experts say some common expenses draining budgets are optional and worth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We know there are real problems people are facing right now, and we don't want to downplay them — but sometimes being upper-middle ...

Think about the last time you complained about something going wrong at home. Maybe the Wi-Fi dropped during a movie night, ...

This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. We are living in a new Gilded Age. The first, from roughly 1870 to 1890, was marked by dramatic ...

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 ...

Between bombshell op-eds and a federal court case on college admissions, race-based affirmative action is back in the pundits' spotlight. Earlier this week, Peter Beinart joined Ross Douthat in ...

It is a serious problem that the American middle class is increasingly approaching retirement age without enough money to ...

Joe Biden is obsessed with the American middle class. It’s the very spine of the US economy, as the president regularly puts it, and the deliberate target of everything from his administration’s ...

Your household can earn more than $160,000 a year and still be considered part of the "middle class" in Rhode Island, according to a recent study by SmartAsset. According to a 2022 Gallup survey, ...