Clive Crook is afraid of the proles. Acknowledging arguments that extreme income inequality is socially and economically unsalutary (reviewed in National Journal by Jonathan Rauch), Crook cautions ...

Greece’s middle class in 2025 is defined by income, lifestyle, and stability—key to society yet challenged by inequality and ...

It is still painful to remember the day when I discovered how fragile my family’s lower middle-class existence was. In one of the innumerable, thoughtless acts of my youth, I swiped 35 cents off my ...

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. We asked ...