Years of rising costs for necessities like housing, transportation and healthcare are causing many Americans to feel like financial comfort — once a feature of middle-class life — is getting further ...

The wealth gap between rich millennials and the rest of their age group is the largest of any generation, creating a new wave of class tension and resentment, according to a recent study. Even as the ...

Editor’s note: This essay is adapted from the new, New York Times bestselling book, "You Will Own Nothing: Your War with a New Financial World Order and How to Fight Back" by Carol Roth. While the ...

The young middle-class is increasingly adopting subtle yet effective strategies to build generational wealth. By focusing on disciplined financial habits, they are transforming everyday earnings into ...

The median income of all middle-class households, regardless of household size, was $90,131 in 2020, according to the latest available data from Pew Research Center. While middle-class income levels ...

We live in a society with one of the most unequal income distributions in the developed world, yet we rarely talk about how this reality shapes the lives of our children. Parents often don’t know how ...

Most Americans will make it to some rung of the middle class. Here's how much you need to get to the next tier these days. "Essentially, every client we work with views themselves as middle class" - ...

A version of this article first appeared in CNBC's Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight ...

While middle-class income levels have increased over the years, this growth has been steady but slow. The term middle class in the United States is generally defined as two-thirds to double the ...