A financial consultant breaks down the income, savings and lifestyle benchmarks the middle class needs to feel rich today, and why the number may surprise you.

Homeownership and a comfortable retirement used to be middle-class norms. Discover 11 things people could afford 20 years ago ...

City-level differences are even more pronounced. Three of the five cities with the highest middle-class income range are in California. San Jose - home to many S ilicon Valley tech workers - tops the ...

About 51% of Americans are considered middle-class, according to the Pew Research Center and, unfortunately, the data shows middle-class incomes are not rising as fast as those of upper-income ...

A lot of people believe all they need to do to become wealthy is to earn more money or to save what they do have. This isn’t all that surprising, considering how many people subscribe to the idea that ...

Across the United States, plasma centers are opening in wealthier areas as more people struggle with the high cost of housing ...

Author Paul Eckert joined the RealClearPolitics podcast on Friday to talk about his new book, Healing Middle-Class Democracy: ...

How do some people achieve upper-middle class status by their mid-50s? Learn what it might take to be defined as part of that bracket.

Here’s how much money Oregonians need to earn to be considered middle-class. Oregon’s median household income is $85,220, ...

Middle-class people (and especially the wealthy) are subject to much invoking of guilt and shaming. For example, “You’re PRIVILEGED!" The implication is that making a good living doesn’t come mainly ...

Inside a suburban Philadelphia strip mall, between the Hair Cuttery and a Citizens Bank, a dozen people lay on black ergonomic beds a few feet apart, hooked up through a needle in the crook of their ...