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 in the United States isn't just wide—it's a chasm. The top 1 percent, about 1.3 million households, hold $52 trillion in net worth. The bottom 50 percent, 66 million households, scrape ...

Edward Wolff, one of the country's leading experts on household wealth, here provides a comprehensive study of wealth in America since 1910. The century brought shifting patterns in the ownership of ...

It’s not every day one high school dropout gets to challenge a billionaire dropout, and likely the only dropout ever to reach outer space. I got this challenge idea reading in a recent edition of The ...

When you ask Americans whether they’re middle class, most will say yes. In fact, according to a Pew Research survey, only 10% of Americans identify as lower class, and just 1% identify as upper class.

Emerging markets will add trillions in wealth by 2030, but the fast-growing affluent class driving it remains largely ...

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" - ...