America's middle class, traditionally considered the backbone of the nation and its economic engine, has been shrinking for the past 50 years, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. A study ...

The American Dream: if you work hard you can marry, own a home, raise and educate your children and decades later retire and not live in poverty. With each generation, the middle class would live a ...

This is an adapted excerpt from the Aug. 23 episode of “Velshi.” For more than 40 years, we’ve been sold a myth: that America’s rich and powerful were under siege — over-taxed, over-regulated and ...

I didn’t know we had a class system in this country. But according to popular pundit descriptions, it seems we do. If so, I guess you would say that I grew up in the so-called “lower class.” What am I ...

U.S. remains globe's top producer of goods, so where are the jobs? Feb. 17, 2011— -- With the country still mired in high unemployment, more people are asking tough questions about American ...

I humbly and gratefully accepted my sixth honorary degree from Long Beach City College yesterday. Much more importantly, I also had the enormous privilege of crafting a speech for more than 5,300 ...

America's middle class has been shrinking for the past 50 years. While middle class Americans remain the biggest income group by number of people, the same can't be said of the aggregate income earned ...