middle class

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“Most of the middle class is at 22% now,” said Craig Ferrantino, an adviser in Huntington, N.Y.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

L.A.’s declining share of a contracting film and television industry is hollowing out its middle class, a group Pratt rarely talks about when homelessness is not at issue.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

Instead, the middle class is splintering along generational lines.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

Careers in customer service, accounting and data entry once paved the way to the middle class.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

The middle class rather is tempted by the pastoral impulse to deny its difference from the lower class—even to attempt cheap imitations of lower-class life.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez