Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We know there are real problems people are facing right now, and we don't want to downplay them — but sometimes being upper-middle ...

Between bombshell op-eds and a federal court case on college admissions, race-based affirmative action is back in the pundits' spotlight. Earlier this week, Peter Beinart joined Ross Douthat in ...

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All social classes can experience competitive friendships, as Festinger (1954) first proposed in his Social Comparison Theory, which suggests that people have an innate drive to assess themselves by ...

54% of Americans believe they are in the middle class, and 52% of them actually are. Middle class status varies with location, with higher levels of income needed to make the cut in more expensive, ...

In the United States and other developed countries, the middle-class has long been the indicator of a strong economy. They’re our teachers, accountants, nurses and more. Having a healthy middle class ...