To define the middle class solely by income range is weak and unreliable, because there are just too many other variables to consider.

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NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Sherry Linkon, co-director of the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University, about the difficulty of defining what "middle class" is today. We asked ...

The latest version of TypeScript provides developers with tools to create base classes and class hierarchies just like the other object-oriented languages. In an earlier column, I looked at what ...

Last weekend, Pastor Rick Warren asked both presidential candidates to define the income at which “you move from middle class to rich.” The context of the question was, of course, the difference in ...

It is still painful to remember the day when I discovered how fragile my family’s lower middle-class existence was. In one of the innumerable, thoughtless acts of my youth, I swiped 35 cents off my ...

Who makes up the middle class? Surveys suggest that half to 90 percent of Americans consider themselves members of the economic middle class. These respondents may have annual gross earnings of ...