The median U.S. household income is more than sufficient to build a $1 million portfolio over a 30-year period. The Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS) collects data from roughly 60,000 ...

GoBankingRates released a new study that measures what it takes to be considered "rich" in American cities. GoBankingRates looked at household income percentiles and concluded that an individual ...

New estimates show how high the bar now sits to be counted among the country’s financial elite. In the United States, a ...

Building on our previous data visualization exercise, we've now gone the extra mile and built a tool you can use to estimate what your percentile income ranking is for your age group! Just enter your ...

…. is the title of yesterday’s Wall Street Journal editorial on new data from the “2019 Survey of Consumer Finances” report that was released by the Federal Reserve on Monday. The Fed’s report is ...

Boston has relinquished a crown we never wanted to have in the first place. Income inequality in the Hub is a tremendous problem—so much so that a previous Brookings Institution analysis found that in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the safety net, inequality, mobility, labor markets. This article is more than 8 years old. A new research study on ...

Sixty-two percent of Americans identify as middle class, but what that means can vary widely by geographic location — for example, $100,000 goes a lot further in Lee County, Kentucky than in San ...

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders now have the highest income inequality of any racial or ethnic group in the U.S.; Asian-American and Pacific Islander adults in the 90th income percentile earn ...