For many middle-class Americans, kids, marriage, and even a car now feel harder to afford. What that shift could mean for your finances in the years ahead.

On a recent episode of NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast, the hosts laid out a number that should stop any middle-income ...

A new study shows that the middle class isn’t shrinking in the traditional sense, so much as it is splitting into two distinct classes. Here's what it means.

The $37 trillion national debt will not be paid for by America’s middle class. How we know this is the $37 trillion in debt itself, along with the accepted truth that soon enough $37 trillion will be ...

While middle class families have never been defined by the same financial freedom that upper-class wealthy households have, they've almost always had a level of financial comfortability that set them ...

Ali Hussain has a background that consists of a career in finance with large financial institutions and in journalism covering business. MoMo Productions / Getty Images If your household income was ...

It is possible to change your social class status but not without huge paradigm shifts, a great deal of intentional dedicated effort, acquiring new social and professional skills, and having mentors ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misspelled Jeremy Horpedahl's name. America’s middle class is spooked about the economy. Consumer confidence has been falling for most of ...