Inflation reached a 40-year high of 9.1% in June 2022, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). While prices have stabilized since then, the cost of living hasn’t gotten any lower. Some ...

Inflation has eased, but many middle-class families still feel it in their weekly routines — from groceries to gas to after-school care. Paychecks aren’t stretching the way they used to, and the usual ...

The middle class is indeed shrinking, but new research reveals the trend is actually good news.

Inflation has cooled a lot since its peak during the pandemic, but for many middle-class families, it doesn’t feel that way. That’s because inflation doesn’t always show up in obvious ways. Sometimes ...

The American dream of a comfortable retirement is becoming harder to achieve for millions of middle-class workers. Where ...

Financially-stressed middle-class families looking for relief in the latest CPI report probably won’t be too happy. Tuesday’s data revealed that the cost of living for Americans ticked higher in ...

The latest New York Times/Siena University poll doesn’t definitively answer these questions, but it offers some important ...

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

The average middle-class consumer is feeling the sting of higher prices, but higher-income households aren’t immune to rising prices either. Even among the upper-middle class, many are swapping out ...