Financial stability, homeownership and a comfortable lifestyle capped by a solid retirement defined the “American Dream” after World War II. However, shaky financial markets in the early 2000s, ...

Everything in this world is more and more expensive, and even the simplest of vacations seem like they cost an arm and a leg. Even a day at Disneyland is out of hand. How did the middle class vacation ...

Picture Grandma's dining room in the 1960s. The table's set with dishes that look more like science experiments than Sunday ...

Being middle class in America used to mean something—something socially transformative, something even revolutionary. The American middle class represented a form of national social order never before ...