The next time you call yourself middle class, think about what you really mean when you say that. Do you earn what might constitute a middle-class salary–somewhere between $37,000 and $147,000? Or is ...

Recent surveys and user feedback tell us that while encouraging a return to the workplace many organizations are overlooking employees’ primary dissatisfaction with working from the office: the ...

A federal appeals court handed Argentina a victory Wednesday in its quest to relieve itself of the pressures of debt owed to American hedge funds and others, saying a judge went too far by letting ...

In this essay from 2011, novelist DD Johnston presents a communist analysis of the definition and purpose of working class fiction. Last week, for the second time in my life, I found myself agreeing ...

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 ...

Dear Ann Landers: Thank you for asking your readers to send you their favorite columns. Among my most precious remembrances is the definition of “Class.” I sent the original to my late mother-in-law.

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Classes and objects in Java must be initialized before they are used. You’ve previously learned that class fields are initialized to default values when classes are loaded, and that objects are ...