My grandmother raised four kids on a teacher's salary. Every Saturday she volunteered at the food bank, and when I had the flu in college, she drove six hours just to bring me soup. She could stretch ...
Growing up lower middle class teaches you to be practical, careful, and quietly resilient. Even when life gets easier, those ...
Have you ever noticed how successful people who have faced challenges early on in life due to their families' financial ...
The true middle class has shrunk in recent years. While many people still classified as “middle class” are experiencing a slight shift in incomes, others are being pushed into poverty by basic ...
“Middle class” is often used as a monolithic term. When politicians invoke it, they’re referring to anyone who isn’t wildly wealthy or who wouldn’t classify as financially disadvantaged. But there’s ...
Though terms like these can’t fully encapsulate people’s specific financial realities, they can be useful. The differences between how the lower middle class and upper middle class are living can ...