New U.S. Census data reveals how much income it takes to reach middle- or upper-class status—and how location reshapes those ...

Of course, when we think of outsourcing labor, we tend to think of housekeepers, nannies, and home managers, but the truth is, to be considered upper middle class nowadays, things like a therapist, a ...

Mexico News Daily chief writer Peter Davies interviews citizens about what a middle-class income and lifestyle looks like in Mexico.

Understanding your place within America’s socio-economic spectrum can be challenging, especially with the existence of five distinct wealth classes. These classifications vary significantly across ...

There's a lot of variation within each group. The top 5% of earners, for example, bring in $295,000 or more per year. That's nearly 10x what someone in the lowest quintile earns annually. It's also ...

About one in four U.S. households spends more than 95% of their income on necessities, according to a 2024 Bank of America Institute analysis. Even among households earning over $150,000, roughly 20% ...

Lower-middle-class people operate with transparency about finances and struggles because it's practical and normal in their ...

If you’ve lived in California for a while, you’ve probably noticed that what once felt “comfortable” financially doesn’t quite stretch as far as it used to. Prices for housing, groceries and even a ...

We know there are real problems people are facing right now, and we don't want to downplay them — but sometimes being upper-middle-class comes with its own quietly tragic dilemmas. For instance, when ...

Your social class, along with the money you have in your savings account, can be an indicator of certain criteria for your socioeconomic status; however, it acts as more than a simple metric to ...

ARCADIA, Calif. (KABC) -- Arcadia's Barnhart School offers its eighth-grade students a financial literacy class that educates them about savings, taxes, debt and investments. "A lot of times we offer ...

We regularly interact with people across race and class lines, but those conversations sometimes go wrong. Lower-status people fear facing discrimination; higher-status people fear being accused of ...