A stay-at-home mom lists the 16 ways her lower-middle class family experiences life differently from wealthy families. Her honesty offers a true snapshot into the lives of American families today.

Find Out: 10 Things the Middle Class Won’t Be Able To Afford in Less Than a Decade Read Next: 5 Subtly Genius Moves All Wealthy People Make With Their Money So far this year, the rising cost of ...

Socioeconomic status is complex, with blurry lines between classes. However, your lifestyle and wealth-building opportunities often depend heavily on whether you fall into the middle or lower ...

Your typical middle-class family comes in at $169,420. And if you’re in the lower-middle class, you’re looking at about $58,550. Trending: ...

Find Out: How Middle-Class Earners Are Quietly Becoming Millionaires — and How You Can, Too A new study by GOBankingRates found the 11 states where an income range in the six figures is ...

Lower-middle class Americans nearing retirement age are worse off than their counterparts more than two decades ago, while upper-middle Americans have largely seen their life expectancy and wealth ...

Medical debt is a big burden for the middle class. Almost a quarter of middle-class Americans, or 17 million people, had unpaid health care bills in 2020, a larger share than those higher and ...

A family of four in New Jersey and Connecticut would need to earn $80,163 to sneak into the middle class. Christopher Sadowski. New York State’s minimum income in 2023 left it just behind Hawaii ...

As the increasing costs continue to outpace your monthly budget, you might be noticing that you are generally priced out of purchases your parents and previous generations were able to make at ...

If you are from a lower-middle-class household, navigating what you will and won’t be able to buy in 2025 will be even trickier. Caitlyn Moorhead contributed to the reporting for this article ...