The people most anxious about money aren't the ones who have the least — they're the ones close enough to comfort to feel ...
With the Great Decompression, incomes rise for everyone but much faster for the affluent.
It's not surprising that costs go up over time, but these 11 everyday essentials that were affordable 10 years ago are so expensive now that the middle class can't afford them anymore.
Many adults experience a loss of control later in life when they've grown up poor, according to a study from the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, but when they grow up middle class, then ...
In the recent Joe Rogan interview with Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont made a simple and empathetic argument: People today are angry because, decades ago, families had money to spare and didn ...
East Asia and the Pacific has dramatically reduced poverty, but only about a third of its population has achieved true economic security, with another third remaining vulnerable to slipping back into ...
Americans’ finances are continuing to improve. Median household income rose to $61,400 in 2017, up 1.8% from a year earlier, according to data released by the US Census Bureau on Wednesday. The report ...
Uganda’s middle class, it seems, exists more in statistics than in lived reality, visible, yet fragile, and still battling ...
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The abused middle class

MANILA, Philippines — Based on most recent data and projections, a majority of our people are poor. The upper class (rich and upper-income) constitutes about 1.4 percent of the population. This small ...