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 ...

Understanding where you fall in the American economic class system isn’t as simple as pulling out a calculator or looking at a pay stub. Various forces shape individuals’ economic classes and their ...

Understanding where you fall in the American economic class system isn’t as simple as pulling out a calculator or looking at a pay stub. Myriad forces shape individuals’ economic class and their views ...

Denmark is noted for its generous welfare state relative to the United States. Yet inequality in outcomes for Danish children based on family influence remains across social and economic classes at ...

Even with a 2.8% COLA for 2026, many Americans are nonetheless worried about how Social Security will help pay for their rising expenses in retirement.

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 ...

Now our business correspondent, Paul Solman of WGBH-Boston, looks at how much economic issues really do control what voters do on Election Day. The state of Kansas. Over the past few decades, as the ...

Since the onset of the Great Recession, a debate has persisted over creating what is described— depending on one’s premises, as either a trans-ideological working class movement or a red-brown ...

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 ...