Baby boomers may have had the best financial start of all the generations — coming of age when salaries kept up with the cost of living and goods and services were affordable — but that doesn’t mean ...

There are obvious answers that come to mind when you consider what rich people spend money on that poorer or middle-class families don’t. What’s more important to focus on, however, is what any social ...

This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. We are living in a new Gilded Age. The first, from roughly 1870 to 1890, was marked by dramatic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. kate_sept2004 / iStock.com Determining whether you’re rich or part of the middle class can be tricky. So many factors can eat into ...

Determining whether you’re rich or part of the middle class can be tricky. So many factors can eat into your paycheck, such as the cost of living, grocery bills and how many people you have in your ...

When we think of middle class life, several things come to mind: owning a home, stable childcare, food in the pantry, a sense of security. But as the rich get richer in Massachusetts, the middle class ...

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 ...

Determining whether you’re rich or part of the middle class can be tricky. So many factors can eat into your income, such as cost of living, grocery bills and how many people you have in your care. It ...