“You’re on middle-class footing in your 20s when your net worth is positive, an emergency fund is real and liquid, retirement ...

Living "comfortably" is a subjective idea, but it's one many middle-class households are actively trying to define as costs ...

Geography now defines middle-class life as much as income does.Shrinking middle class numbers reveal deeper shifts in how ...

Learn how wealthy individuals leverage debt to build wealth. Also discover some smart strategies the middle class can use ...

According to financial planners, the issue is often not bad habits. It is a set of well-intentioned money moves that once ...

The $37 trillion national debt will not be paid for by America’s middle class. How we know this is the $37 trillion in debt itself, along with the accepted truth that soon enough $37 trillion will be ...

Ali Hussain has a background that consists of a career in finance with large financial institutions and in journalism covering business. CG Tan / Getty Images If your household income was between ...

In 1980 middle-class families lived in a world of Atari consoles, rotary phones and station wagons with wood paneling. The median U.S. household income was $21,020, enough to buy a modest home, a ...