middle class

What does it mean to be middle class? What appears to be middle class to one person might give off the feeling of wealth to another. Pew Research Center defines it this way: “Middle-income Americans are defined as adults whose annual household income is two-thirds to double the national median, after ...

Wonder why the rich get richer while the middle class shrinks? It's because the wealthy use their money to dominate government. Just look to the Illinois governor's race where two super-wealthy candidates overwhelmed their opposition with barrages of television ads and by spreading around contributions ...

California's housing crisis reaches from the homeless to the middle class — but it's still almost impossible to fix. Michael Hiltzik. By Michael Hiltzik. Mar 29, 2018 | 9:55 AM. California's housing crisis reaches from the homeless to the middle class — but it's still almost. Only the most glaring manifestation of the state's housing ...

The middle class would seem to hold the economic fate of the world in its hands, considering the frequency with which it appears in media debates and academic discussions. A large, thriving middle class has been associated with a combination of stable political systems and sustained rates of economic ...

Before 1968, America's small African-American middle class operated mostly in a segregated world. Black-owned funeral homes, pharmacies, restaurants and clubs served a mostly black clientele in neighborhoods like Detroit's Black Bottom, soon to be razed for "urban renewal" — decimated like many ...

James Earl Davis, a Professor of Urban Education at Temple University and his golden doodle, Baldwin, pictured in his home in East Germantown. (Brad Larrison for WHYY). Temple University education professor James Earl Davis and his partner moved into their stately 150-year-old Victorian home in ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WTOK) - Alabama's governor has signed into law a bill that provides the biggest tax break for the state's middle-class in over a decade. According to Kay Ivey's office, the new law raises the threshold for claiming the maximum exception for state income taxes. For married couples filing ...

California's lush coastline, balmy climate and post World War II economic promise made it an easy sell as America's middle class paradise in the 1950s. “The California Dream of two or three generations ago was, 'I'm going to move from a place that's cold and flat to a place where there's lots of opportunity ...

This split is playing out right along with the shrinking of the US middle class (paywall). Over the last decade, most Americans saw their discretionary funds either fail to grow or even shrink. The bottom 40%, for instance, actually had less discretionary money to spend in 2016 than in 2007. For the middle 40% ...

In 2010, the Brookings Institute offered a "watershed" report stating that the global "middle class" was set to explode, almost entirely from the Chinese and Indian poor populations urbanizing and transitioning to the middle class (middle class meaning annual incomes, per household of four, from $14,600 to ...

The definition of "middle class" is complex. After all, class can be defined by many things: income, net worth, education and occupation, for example. Nonetheless, Pew Research Center took a stab at defining class in a 2016 report, noting that "the income it takes to be middle-income varies by household ...

Middle-class voters on Hong Kong Island stayed loyal to the pro-democracy bloc and helped Au Nok-hin win the seat in Sunday's Legislative Council by-election, while those living in the richest and poorest neighbourhoods backed pro-establishment candidate Judy Chan Ka-pui.

HELENA - Former Vice President Joe Biden urged Democrats in Helena and across the state Saturday night to fight for the middle class, which he said made America the power and beacon of the modern world. “But for an aspirational middle class that is constantly rising, we would not have had the social ...

In the unfolding 21st century, many shrinking cities must alter their focus from sustaining the most distressed communities to enabling the continued success of middle class neighborhoods. In many ways, this shift will be as politically challenging as helping citizens understand the need to abandon ...

California's lush coastline, balmy climate and post World War II economic promise made it an easy sell as America's middle class paradise in the 1950s. “The California Dream of two or three generations ago was, 'I'm going to move from a place that's cold and flat to a place where there's lots of opportunity ...

For more than half a century, the term “the American middle-class,” has served as a political reference to white American upward mobility. This was less an artifact of particular calculations than one of historical experiences and demographic realities. Since at least the 1950s, Americans who were neither ...

Like so many middle-class workers, Wright is stuck. She can't afford current market-rate housing in Boston but she does not qualify for subsidized housing. As someone who was born in Boston and has lived here her entire life, she feels like one of the forgotten, like the city is telling her “get out, get out,” she ...

(1 of ) Middle-class Americans earned about $39,000 to $115,000 in 2016, according to the Pew Research Center, but middle-class incomes vary at state and city levels. Click through our gallery to see how your hometown measures up against other North Bay cities. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2016 ...

California's lush coastline, balmy climate and post World War II economic promise made it an easy sell as America's middle class paradise in the 1950s. “The California Dream of two or three generations ago was, `I'm going to move from a place that's cold and flat to a place where there's lots of opportunity ...