Many adults experience a loss of control later in life when they've grown up poor, according to a study from the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, but when they grow up middle class, then ...

In the recent Joe Rogan interview with Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont made a simple and empathetic argument: People today are angry because, decades ago, families had money to spare and didn ...

Financial pitfalls often stem from ingrained habits that many people overlook. These habits can perpetuate a cycle of poverty, particularly within the middle class. Financial experts have highlighted ...

Millions of Americans are so used to feeling broke that they may not look into the various factors that cause this. You may feel as though you can’t rise out of poverty or move out of the middle class ...

The true middle class has shrunk in recent years. While many people still classified as “middle class” are experiencing a slight shift in incomes, others are being pushed into poverty by basic ...

Once seen as the economic anchor of the United States, the middle class has gradually lost ground over the past five decades. While America has experienced overall growth in wealth, the distribution ...

January is Poverty Awareness Month, but poverty is not something that exists only in statistics or distant places. It shows up in longer waits at the doctor’s office, crowded classrooms, and local ...

Think you're middle class in Mississippi? Cost of living, inflation and the community you live can help define what qualifies as "middle class," but the idea is always changing. It's usually defined ...

It's time to move the civil rights movement off the front pages and into the history books, somewhere between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The movement was always a black middle class ...