Middle-class life in the United States has always been defined less by a single number and more by a bundle of expectations: ...

The decline of the middle class has become a focal point of this year's presidential election. Each candidate claims their plan would put an end to the middle-income slide that accelerated during the ...

The American middle class is still shopping, but it is shopping on a timer. Big-ticket purchases are being pushed off, carts ...

America’s middle class is getting squeezed by the soaring cost of attending elite colleges. And those schools — themselves pressured by attacks from the Trump administration over federal funding — are ...

A national taxpayer advocate warned that Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s tax plan could significantly affect the state’s middle class, despite its purported focus on the wealthy. Pete Sepp, president of the ...

Is there anyone who’s middle-class anymore? Looking around me, I feel like I’m the only one left. A unicorn in a world of people who are much richer than myself, or much poorer than I am. No intention ...

Rent costs have long weighed on lower-income households — now it’s coming for the middle class. Nearly 4 in 10 middle-class renter households are burdened by costs, an NBC News analysis of Census ...

WASHINGTON -- We'll hear a lot of complaining about the "middle-class squeeze" in this election, but the squeeze is as American as the Constitution. We live in an ambitious and striving society. Most ...