"The middle class is shrinking" might be the assertion of the decade. Progressives and populists alike use it to justify ...

Middle-class paychecks in the United States are larger on paper than they were in 1980, yet the lifestyle those earnings can reliably support has shifted in ways that are far more complicated than a ...

ChatGPT started with the basics. In 1971, about 61% of American adults lived in middle-income households. By 2021, that number had dropped to 50%. That’s a massive shift in just 50 years. But the ...