The minimum net worth to qualify as upper middle class at 55 may be higher than you think. See how your savings and ...

Private credit is now becoming a well-established asset class in the Middle East. As activity grows, sponsors and investors are focusing as much ...

For years, economists have pointed to technology, globalization, and shifting labor markets as primary factors contributing ...

Many life milestones feel out of reach for the middle class, a big indicator that things are shifting. Here's what it could mean for your financial future, and what you can do to prepare.

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 ...

Newsweek contacted the White House via email for comment on these latest polling figures. A spokesman previously said: "Turning the [Joe] Biden economic disaster around has informed nearly every ...

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 ...

The words we use don’t just communicate what we think. They reveal how we were taught to think about money, work, and worth. Language is a class marker. Sociolinguists have known this for decades: the ...

The class that insists it’s “comfortable but not rich” while sending their kids to schools that cost more than the median income. I’ve noticed this pattern since I started writing about class. People ...

The drive vacation is still the most realistic way for the American middle class to see their own country. We’ve spent 30 years quietly dismantling the infrastructure that made it possible. Hotels in ...

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 ...