Dream big, or dream small. But in America, the most impossible dream these days is for a middle-class life. What’s the salary needed to be “middle class” in New York City? Average middle-wage jobs pay ...

This story is part of Map to the Middle Class, a Hechinger Report series that explores how schools can prepare young people for the good middle-class jobs of the future. MANCHESTER, N.H. — It was ...

As AI technology continues to improve and the impacts of COVID-19 linger, many jobs are becoming obsolete. Unfortunately, dozens of middle-class jobs are in that mix. Many of these are decent-paying ...

Reporting from Washington — For nearly 20 years Alfredo Molena made a middle-class living repairing bank ATMs in Los Angeles, despite being a high school dropout and immigrant from El Salvador. By ...

I have to admit that as an outsider looking in I've never really quite grasped this American near mythologisation of manufacturing jobs. Where I come from they were regarded as hard, boring and not ...

The U.S. job market is expected to grow by about 7% over the next decade. At that rate, roughly 10 million more Americans will be employed by 2024. However, these new jobs are not likely to be created ...

On Aug. 12, the Wall Street Journal reported on “quiet quitting,” an approach to work brought to the forefront of public attention after the COVID-19 pandemic. Perhaps counterintuitively, quiet ...

Esther Akutekha, who lives in Brooklyn, New York, has a good job as a public relations specialist that pays more than $50,000 a year. But because of the $1,440 a month rent on her studio apartment in ...

Social scientists use 3 common methods to define class—by occupation, income, or education—and there is really no consensus about the “right” way to do it. Michael Zweig, a leading scholar in ...

The United States shed 8.7 million jobs from the official onset of the Great Recession in December 2007 until the economy began regaining jobs in March 2010. Although the economy has since regained ...