Flexible budgets, spending reviews and small money shifts are some quiet ways middle-class earners build wealth over time -- ...

A lot of people believe all they need to do to become wealthy is to earn more money or to save what they do have. This isn’t all that surprising, considering how many people subscribe to the idea that ...

Determining whether you’re rich or part of the middle class can be tricky. So many factors can eat into your income, such as cost of living, grocery bills and how many people you have in your care. It ...

Living a middle-class life is a blessing and a curse. On one hand, you’re one financial calamity away from devastation. On the other hand, you have many perks that both the rich and the poor often ...

To some degree, the data tells us what we already intuitively know. But that doesn’t make it any less sobering. Between 2000 and 2014, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center, the ...

As much as we might try to act like class differences don’t exist for kids, money is a huge determining factor in how children are raised, what opportunities they’re exposed to, and what they’re ...

The housing crisis is not just about young people buying their first home. This video explains why rising inequality means the middle class will start losing homes they already own. As wealth ...

While many middle-class retirees focus on stretching their savings, wealthy retirees take a different approach: they keep building. From strategic investing to assembling a team of financial experts, ...

As the host of “Money Rehab” and the best-selling author of books like “Miss Independent” and “The Money School,” Nicole Lapin is acutely aware that many habits middle-class people think are keeping ...

The good news is that Americans have never been richer. The bad news is that most of them don’t feel like it. There has been tremendous growth in income and wealth in the U.S. in the last half-century ...