The middle class is often reduced to numbers—but it's much more than income brackets. It's a culture defined by values, work ...

The Pew Research Center found that in 2016, the median middle income was about the same as it was in 2000, hovering around $78,000.The median upper income, on the other hand, is upwards of ...

In today’s celebrity culture, the rich and the royal seem endlessly fascinating. But in our political culture, the middle class has received the most attention of late—and with good reason.

In the past few years, the "middle class" income range has been described as between $32,900 and $64,000 a year (a Pew Charitable Trusts study), between $50,800 and $122,000 (a U.S. Department of ...

Of course, a middle-class income can vary depending on where you live. In San Jose, California, it ranges between $51,000 and $182,000 a year, according to a recent analysis by NPR.

A revised edition of a 2020 book looks at the problems associated with a "white, male and middle class" cultural arena in the ...

In Status and Culture, the critic W. David Marx describes how, in the mid-20th century, the middle class “enjoyed its own respectable taste world of Reader’s Digest, bowling clubs, and ...

Peter Gay is perhaps the pre-eminent cultural historian writing today. The Rise of Modern Paganism, the first volume of his two-volume history of the Enlightenment, won the National Book Award in ...

First, a “respectability counterrevolution” has stigmatized working-class culture as unworthy of media attention, pushing the urban press to cater to the tastes and interests of American ...

9 Ways Convenience Culture Is Costing the Middle-Class Thousands in 2025 February 14, 2025 — 02:02 pm EST Written by G. Brian Davis for GOBankingRates -> ...

The global spread of middle-class society and culture has not resulted in political liberalization. Quite the opposite: The growing middle classes across Africa, ...