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 ...

Earning six figures feels like it should come with a certain amount of ease. Not wealth, necessarily, but comfort. A mortgage you can manage. Groceries you don’t agonize over. Maybe a vacation once a ...

Earlier this year, our report, “The Middle Class Is Shrinking Because of a Booming Upper-Middle Class,” argued that the narrative of a “hollowed-out middle class” rests on counterintuitive class ...