America's middle class, traditionally considered the backbone of the nation and its economic engine, has been shrinking for the past 50 years, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey.. A ...

America’s Class Politics Have Turned Upside Down. Story by Rogé Karma • 5mo. This is Work in Progress, a newsletter about work, technology, ... who expanded the social safety net.

His poor grammar notwithstanding, we could borrow that little phrase and turn it around to describe the social order in the United States of America. “We ain’t got no class” in this country ...

The United States' growing turn toward protectionism isn't just about trade deficits or manufacturing jobs, instead it's ...

The new report, released this month, illustrates the role of Social Security in shoring up the wealth of middle-class and working-class Americans. If you subtract Social Security from the equation ...

“My job still defines my ability to survive,” he said. Most Americans would object to seeing a household with their earnings as anything but upper class, he acknowledged, but in his mind, class isn’t ...

Yet many welfare states have been built the world over without an ideology of national security following in their wake.

Middle-class American families struggling to climb the social ladder may have better or worse luck depending on where they live, according to a new study. "Since the 1970s, the American middle ...

The American ruling class is facing a historical reckoning. The social force that alone can stop and reverse the slide to fascism and world war is the working class, in the US and internationally.

To identify the income it takes to be in the middle class in America’s 50 largest cities, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed metro area level data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2021 American Community Survey.