The term "middle class" can cause confusion when Americans talk to Brits because it doesn't means the same thing in the U.S.

Learn more about the upper class, what defines it, its impact, income levels, and its distinction from the middle and working ...

Last week the Eleventh Circuit addressed an issue that many class action practitioners probably haven’t thought much about: whether approval of a class action settlement requires that each class ...

The definition of America’s middle class used to be a lot clearer than it is today — thanks to the changes of inflation and cost of living. According to data from Pew Research Center, the country’s ...

Last week, President Obama went on the road promoting an economic agenda for the middle class. As expected, John Boehner and other Republicans fired back by charging Obama with “squeezing the middle ...

Three things are certain in life: death, taxes, and class definitions. Every class action complaint contains a proposed class definition. It is an indispensable piece of the landscape, just like the ...

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 ...