This spring, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear two cases that touch on questions of the constitutionality of same-sex marriage. Source: Fibonacci Blue (Flickr). In U.S. v. Windsor, with arguments ...

A poll from The Washington Post finds widespread agreement among Americans on what it means to be middle class. But just over a third of U.S. adults have the financial security to meet that definition ...

Financial stability seems to be waning in America. With unrelenting inflation, stagnant wages and an overall feeling of being squeezed, the middle class is struggling. This has led many Americans to ...

So, what does the median income for the upper-middle class look like in 2025? Here's a look at the factors involved so you ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Sherry Linkon, co-director of the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University, about the difficulty of defining what "middle class" is today. We asked ...

Clive Crook is afraid of the proles. Acknowledging arguments that extreme income inequality is socially and economically unsalutary (reviewed in National Journal by Jonathan Rauch), Crook cautions ...

MIDDLE-CLASS LIFE: A family from Beijing enjoys a vacation at a resort near the Wenyu River in Tongzhou District on May 22 (CFP) China's cities housed more than 230 million middle-class residents in ...

John Ross, senior fellow, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University, analyzes the Chinese middle class in relation to both China and the Western world. How do you define the Chinese ...