Middle class feels squeeze as rich get richer
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When the rich get richer, it isn't just the poor who get squeezed, according to a new book by income-inequality expert Robert H. Frank.
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As Google Inc. GOOG.O  nears  the end of its first quarter as a public company, industry  watchers say one of its emerging challenges is how to keep  soon-to-be wealthy workers from cashing out and moving on.
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No one in the Republican presidential race talks more about middle-class tax relief than Mitt Romney. The twist: His view of who fits into the middle class is more expansive than most.
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A crisis decades in the making has reduced middle-class people in New Delhi, IndiaÂs richest city, to foraging for water.
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Comment is free: George Monbiot: The middle classes congratulate themselves on going green, then carry on buying and flying as much as before.
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There's a new social class in town -- the "Google Riche" -- and while their newfound wealth is impressive, they might want to spend some time thinking about their new tax brackets and how to keep the sharks from taking a few bites off the top. -washingtonpost.com
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LOS ANGELES - Billionaires and multimillionaires are browsing for holiday gifts just like the rest of us, but the unbelievably rich are opening bulging wallets for dream presents that challenge the imagination.
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It's hard not to get rich investing this way.
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Workers in one of Harare's big department stores stock shelves with luxury goods only the rich can afford, while at an adjacent bank ordinary Zimbabweans are clamoring for cash which is the latest thing in short supply.
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Yale University said Monday it is joining an expanding group of elite colleges under pressure from parents, lawmakers and alumni to make top schools more affordable to middle-class and upper middle-class families.
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NEW YORK -- Barely two years ago, Cristina Rodriguez and her three children were moored on the wrong side of the income gap. A high school dropout, she was making a little more than $200 a week, stapling price tags to shirts and boxing them at a Modell's warehouse. "I didn't use my mouth, didn't use my mind; I only used my hands. I was always going to be broke," she said....
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Why the rich really do get richer -- and how to become one of them.
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Gold is no longer the metal of choice for the adornment of the ruling class.
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Middle income families with students in many of the nation's top university are getting some relief.
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The rich get richer. The Pritzker family could soon get tens of millions of dollars from a settlement involving the collapse of a bank it co-owned.
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Weighing the benefits of tax-free growth with the pain of locking in your money.
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Money may not buy happiness, but for many people it apparently puts a down payment on satisfaction.