About half of U.S. adults (52%) lived in middle-income households in 2022, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the most recent available government data. Roughly three-in-ten (28%) were in ...

Determining whether you’re rich or part of the middle class can be tricky. So many factors can eat into your income, such as cost of living, grocery bills and how many people you have in your care. It ...

The grass is always greener in the neighbor’s yard that looks richer, but understanding where you fall on the wealth spectrum isn’t always as simple as checking your bank balance. In the United States ...

There are obvious answers that come to mind when you consider what rich people spend money on that poorer or middle-class families don’t. What’s more important to focus on, however, is what any social ...

Millennials tend to get a bad rap for things like jumping from job to job, loving avocado toast and being late to embrace homeownership — but consider that this age cohort has been dealt a rough hand, ...

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 ...