While the median income of middle-class Americans has risen from $66,400 in 1970 to $106,100 in 2022—a 60 percent growth—, the share of total U.S. household income held by the middle class has ...

Middle-class Chinese are increasingly turning away from luxury brands. B.Zhou/Shutterstock Ripples hit the world The global implications of all this are significant. When 500 million people change ...

Key Findings Members of China’s urban middle class — long assumed to be the most secular segment of Chinese society — are turning to religion and spirituality in greater numbers. Rejecting officially ...

There’s no hard-and-fast definition of the middle class; it’s more about self-identification. And just over half of Americans consider themselves middle class, according to a recent Gallup poll.