Middle class

The polling also showed broad majority support for Biden's signature legislative proposals: the American Rescue Plan, the American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan.

Republicans are taking advantage of the Biden administration's refusal to enforce a law designed to make sure stimulus money isn't used for tax breaks.

Without a Trump to unite them, the Democrats, led by a radical fringe unrepresentative of even their own party, is finding themselves increasingly isolated.

If our nation does not develop its best talent, American prosperity, innovation and security will suffer in the long run.

Republicans have lost the elites under Trump, and they're not coming back. Now it's time to adapt.

48 states saw a decline in growth of real median household income under Trump – including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Florida, four states widely regarded as the key electoral battlegrounds for 2020.

During a speech delivered to a hometown audience in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Joe Biden declared that President Trump and his administration have been harmful to the working class citizens whom, Trum has said, his policies have helped.

"Social class shapes the attitudes that people hold about their abilities, and that in turn has important implications for how class hierarchies perpetuate from one generation to the next."

Hudson Yards, the new Manhattan mega-development, has become the poster child for urban projects that critics say harm the middle class. Is it time to change course?

The popularity of the Asia-Pacific region is set to explode, experts say.

The states where the American Dream is within reach, to the states where it has become just another impossible dream.

The candidate opened herself to criticism by using sweeping terms to describe complicated ideas and sometimes showing a misunderstanding of the way governmental agencies work.

This would include cuts to capital gains taxes.

The Vermont senator tells Trump to "keep your promise" not to slash entitlements, which he warns the GOP will gut next.

The GOP tax plan doubles down on the policies that caused the decline of the middle class.

President Donald Trump has promised his tax cuts will be a Christmas gift to the middle class—too bad they can't re-gift them.

The new poll reflects a dip in confidence in Trump's policies for the middle class since he was inaugurated.

Senate Republicans want to end a benefit that helps bikers commute to work.

A tax reform highlight sheet circulated by House Republicans referred to taxpayers earning $450,000 a year as "low- and middle-income."

Six in 10 Americans don't believe Trump when he says the GOP's tax plan will help the middle class, according to a new poll.

Let's cut through the clutter of the president's proposals.

Trump says his base is as strong as ever. The data say the exact opposite.

Just 42 percent of respondents in a Pew Research poll said that Republicans care about the middle class.

He is proposing the largest redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the rich in modern history.

The party reflects the goals of the moneyed interests. This must change.

In Scranton, Pennsylvania, the vice president makes his case for Hillary Clinton.

San Jose saw the highest displacement of low- and middle-income residents and the lowest displacement for high-income residents among 10 U.S. cities.

Wanted: a strongman to bring jobs home, slam Wall Street, stick it to China, get rid of undocumented immigrants and block terrorists from getting into America.

The White House says a new federal overtime policy can help restore the middle class. Business groups have other ideas.

Economists who say tech is killing middle-class wages aren't accounting for all the cool stuff we don't pay for.