The working class has little control, capitalists have most control over their work and the work of others, and the middle class is either “ in the middle” between labor and capital as ...

The middle class isn’t what it used to be. Discover 5 major shifts in income, lifestyle and opportunity that reveal how much ...

Stephen Rose writes in the Washington Monthly that the middle class is indeed shrinking. But this is good news—if you use a specific measure that he created for no apparent reason. Basically, he ...

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The median hourly wage of today’s working class is $15.75—a full $1.44 less than in 1980, after adjusting for inflation. 15 Today more than one-third of full-time workers earn less than $15 an hour, ...

The terms “middle class” and “working class” are often used interchangeably, but the latter has increasingly become understood as a political identity. The concrete difference between the ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Sherry Linkon, co-director of the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University, about the difficulty of defining what "middle class" is today.

While a few commentators still deny the class dynamic that determined the 2016 election, both Democrats and Republicans have now placed middle-class jobs at center stage. Trump did so during the ...