As part of the series "The New Middle," All Things Considered is hearing from people across the U.S. about what it means to be middle class in America today. Economists say to be considered middle ...

The so-called middle class is the prized demographic for Canada's politicians, pandered to at every opportunity in election campaigns, as the voting bloc most Canadians see themselves belonging to.

Social class continues to influence British people’s opportunities and the way they think about them, even if the boundaries between those classes have shifted. In the third part of Know Your Place: ...

The University of Michigan Index of Consumer Sentiment fell in January, and then plummeted nearly 10% in February. And sure enough, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation reading from the Bureau of ...

Kimberly Jones, here. I’m the broadcast recording engineer for Tell Me More. This week, as part of a new series called Living In the Middle, NPR takes a closer look at what it really means to be ...

Being middle class isn't what it used to be. That isn't so surprising, of course. Everything changes. One hundred years ago, you were considered middle class if you made $577 a year, according to ...

The question of how to define the middle class is one of the perennial mysteries of American social life. Most people say they’re “middle class,” so how can we know what this really means? Every few ...

You could call it class warfare, except the warfare is on the very idea of class. For generations now, various prominent scholars have decided we’d be better off abolishing it. Back in 1939, the ...

John Curtice receives funding from UKRI-ESRC. Tim Bale has previously received funding for research on the Conservative Party and party members from the Leverhulme Trust and from the Economic and ...