Social scientists use 3 common methods to define class—by occupation, income, or education—and there is really no consensus about the “right” way to do it. Michael Zweig, a leading scholar in ...

This spring, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear two cases that touch on questions of the constitutionality of same-sex marriage. Source: Fibonacci Blue (Flickr). In U.S. v. Windsor, with arguments ...

GOBankingRates asked 1,000 adults across different generations what salary they think is necessary to be considered “upper class” and found the answers differed between Gen Z, millennials and boomers.

The concept of being middle class in America has shifted dramatically. What used to guarantee a comfortable lifestyle now ...

Who makes up the middle class? Surveys suggest that half to 90 percent of Americans consider themselves members of the economic middle class. These respondents may have annual gross earnings of ...