I. Overview. There isn’t one American middle class; there are four. Each is different from the others in its attitudes, outlook and financial circumstance—sometimes in ways that defy traditional ...

There is probably no topic on which confusion is more widespread than that of class in the United States. Equivocation about the meanings of words such as “elite” is widespread and often willful.

Compared to their counterparts around the world, US trade unions have historically been reluctant to undertake broad ...

Sowing social unrest and class resentment makes America weaker, not stronger. Pitting one group against another only distracts us from the true sources of inequity in this country.

The average American spends 13 percent, ... America," Drewnowski wrote in an e-mail, "food has become the premier marker of social distinctions, that is to say—social class.

In Britain today white, working-class children now seem to do worse in school than immigrants. A 2003 Home Office study found white men more likely to admit breaking the law than racial minorities ...

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 ...

Participants were asked to judge what they thought the social classes of the speakers were by using a 10-rung ascending ladder of increasing income, education and occupation status.