Middle class

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."

Serena Williams' recent maternal health crisis demonstrated that Black women's reproductive health can be jeopardized, suspect, dismissed and at risk of demise even for the very talented, wealthy and well-known.

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.

Over time, the pressure of rent-seeking bends law in ways that benefit special interests rather than the public interest.

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.

Even when black Americans graduate high school, work full time, marry and have children later, their economic prospects are worse than whites.

The $3.99 trillion budget for fiscal year 2016 has programs to boost the middle class that are funded by higher taxes on corporations and wealthy Americans.

Since his first State of the Union address, economic concerns have continued to dominate Barack Obama's presidency. Which perhaps explains his gray hair.