The Iranian middle class, long a force of political moderation, stability, economic growth, and the base of the country’s ...

Economic class, defined in relation to its actual control over the economy's productive assets, is the most useful lens for examining power distribution in the post-Soviet transition and clarifying ...

A president’s economic policies could make or break middle-class families’ wallets. Changes in tax laws, trade policies and social programs can either ease financial burdens or make it harder for ...

It's fair to say that class plays a significant role in whether people get into the C-suite or not. Indeed, research shows that workers from working-class backgrounds are over 30% less likely to be ...

A paper published last month by Opportunity Insights, a Harvard-affiliated economic research group, shed new light on the ties between social connections and economic mobility, finding a strong link ...

This report examines key changes in the economic status of the American middle class from 1970 to 2023 and its demographic attributes in 2022. The historical analysis is based on U.S. Census Bureau ...

Economic analysis can shine a revealing light on the causes and consequences of social unrest The past decade was marked by a series of high-profile social protests—the Arab Spring, Black Lives Matter ...

The heterogenous and diverse middle class in India, classified by different occupations, education and income levels, has significantly expanded since the 2000s. It now represents a sizeable consumer ...

Despite the American dream of social, economic and geographic mobility (and its propaganda, like this 1930s billboard), the Great Depression drove home the boom-bust cycles inherent to American ...