A six-figure income used to be shorthand for “rich.” Now, it’s barely enough to get by in many parts of the country.

A Pew Research study found about 51% of Americans were living in middle-class households in 2023, down from 61% in 1971. But ...

About half of U.S. adults (52%) lived in middle-income households in 2022, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the most recent available government data. Roughly three-in-ten (28%) were in ...

Various forces shape individuals' economic classes beyond income, such as education level, marital status, home ownership status, the ability to take vacations and more. 54% of Americans self-identify ...

A six-figure income used to mean you’d made it — but those days are long gone for Californians and residents of several other ...

Earning six figures feels like it should come with a certain amount of ease. Not wealth, necessarily, but comfort. A mortgage ...

Within that band, the lower third is classified as “lower-middle class.” In California, where the median household income ...

This report examines key changes in the economic status of the American middle class from 1970 to 2023 and its demographic attributes in 2022. The historical analysis is based on U.S. Census Bureau ...

The states where a $100,000 salary qualifies you as ‘lower middle class:’ report - Cost-of-living issues are expected to be a ...

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. The conventional wisdom about lower middle class financial struggle assumes that people are making poor choices: too ...

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America's middle class is shrinking, but not because people are getting poorer. Instead, more households are climbing the ladder, new research suggests.