How a hard-working, middle-class family spiraled into homelessness With two working parents, $80,000 a year in income, four kids, and a stable home in Rhode Island, the Strong family was living ...

Press Room; Book documents cluttered paradise of middle class Book documents cluttered paradise of middle class . UCLA June 20, 2012. Yet even for all these telling glimpses into the minutiae of daily ...

A Growing Latino Middle Class: One Family’s Journey From Have-Not To Have. ... and we slept in the living room, the boys,” Juan said. The other units were rented out — and with that, ...

Middle class Rio family ... Upstairs, the three bedrooms are similarly neat, and only the rec room, where impish Antonio wiles away afternoons playing with toys and videogames, ...

Those whose annual family income is below $40,000 peg the price of admission to the middle class at about $45,000 a year. Those whose family income is above $150,000 say it takes $100,000 a year ...

I picked up my son from a soccer practice at the gorgeous new fields in Camarillo near the development known as Village at the Park. The sun was going down. The weather was still warm. Nearby, dozens ...

Depending on household size, a middle class family as defined by the Urban Institute makes somewhere between $35,000 to $100,000 annually (this does not include the upper middle class, the “poor ...

After generations of stability, a family reckons with death, debts and a desperate fall from the American middle class.

The Johnsons, whose blended family includes three children under 18, are part of a drawn-out, disquieting shift that is recasting what it means to be middle class in America.

For Elsa Roldan, a single mother who cleans guests’ rooms at the Bellagio resort in Las Vegas, that would put her over the middle-class threshold she is already approaching at her $25-an-hour pay.

The hole Dee dug in search of middle-class stability for her family is so deep that she’d realistically need to double, ... There’s no room to mess up, no room for catastrophe.