Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. greenleaf123 / Getty Images/iStockphoto Ever notice how some people seem to live in a slightly shinier version of reality? Not ...

When it comes to financial status, lower- and middle-class people have a much different idea of what good manners look like ...

The U.S. middle class is shrinking, but not because more Americans are poorer. Instead, more households are climbing into the echelons of the upper middle class due to income gains in recent decades, ...

I don’t think I’ve ever been so depressed as I was when reading the latest study that supposedly proves, once again, why populists are so, so wrong. It was a study put out by the American Enterprise ...

More Americans are breaking into the upper middle class, but for those left behind, the dream of homeownership may be slipping out of reach. About 31% of U.S. households earn enough to be considered ...

This piece originally appeared at National Review Online and is reprinted here with permission. Statistics show that the middle class is healthier and more secure than ever before. This week, Michael ...

Happy Thursday! In today’s newsletter, we examine the growth of America’s upper-middle class, new polling on US intervention in Venezuela, and rising electricity costs. Topline: Populists on both ...

The good news is that Americans have never been richer. The bad news is that most of them don’t feel like it. There has been tremendous growth in income and wealth in the U.S. in the last half century ...

"The middle class is shrinking" might be the assertion of the decade. Progressives and populists alike use it to justify nearly all government interventions, from tariffs to minimum-wage hikes to ...

A stylish upper-class senior couple enjoying a glass of wine in their home - Yuliya Taba/Getty Images The average American worker's income eventually hits a ceiling in late middle age, often leading ...