With inflation straining paychecks and essentials like food, housing and transportation taking a bigger bite out of monthly ...

Trump said he will not sack Kristi Noem over the DHS response to two fatal shootings. Plus, Ilhan Omar attacked with unknown substance in Minneapolis ...

Some 58 percent of voters believe that education is unaffordable, and another 54 percent said housing is unaffordable, ...

The 2025 whitetail rut peaked early, just after Halloween, and ended abruptly around Veterans Day. The rut has two distinct ...

More families are moving up into higher income brackets, a new report from the American Enterprise Institute said, throwing cold water on the idea that America's middle class is disappearing because ...

Federal tax policy is making the problem worse. Under current law, homeowners may exclude only $250,000 in capital gains if single, or $500,000 if married, ...

We’re pleased to report the American middle class is indeed “hollowing out”—because ever more Americans are earning their way into higher income brackets. That runs counter to today’s populist gloom ...

Auto sales are projected to decline to 15.8 million vehicles in 2026 — the first annual drop since 2022 — as high prices deter middle-class buyers. New-car sales have soared 45% among high-income ...

No major U.S. metro is affordable enough for the middle class, but the Twin Cities is one of the most accessible options. According to a report this month from the Brookings Institution, more than 75% ...

Spoiler alert: It costs much more in 2025 to be considered “middle class” than it did in 1990. And that makes sense, given that both wages and the cost of living have increased significantly over the ...

Economists say that a typical middle-class family today is richer than one in the 1960s. Americans in their 20s and 30s don’t believe it. By Sabrina Tavernise A nerdy economics essay recently went ...

In 1980, neither China nor India had much representation in the “global middle class” — people who neither belong to the bottom half of the income distribution nor rank among the top 10% worldwide.