Owning a home, having stable employment and a retirement plan … all of these are key elements of middle-class life. But for the majority of young Americans, these are goals that feel out of reach.

WASHINGTON — Ask two experts on Ohio’s economy whether the American middle class is shrinking, and you’ll get two very different answers. Both will have data to back them up. “The good news is we’re ...

Let’s take a break from the war and follow up on an important economic story, and that is the continued mobility of the great American middle class. There’s a lot more prosperity here than left-wing ...

WASHINGTON - Few phrases carry more weight in American political life than ‘the middle class.’ Politicians invoke it constantly, economists argue about it endlessly, and most Americans identify with ...

The U.S. middle class is shrinking, but not because more Americans are poorer. Instead, more households are climbing into the echelons of the upper middle class due to income gains in recent decades, ...

Often, the expectations that come with the term "middle class" include reaching home ownership, raising kids, having the comfort of modest emergency funds and retirement savings, and the occasional ...

A. Mechele Dickerson examines the creation of America's middle class and why it's struggling today. Owning a home, having stable employment and a retirement plan ... all of these are key elements of ...