Middle Class

Ask An Economist—Year in Review

Did FDR Create the Middle Class?

3 Common Economic Fallacies That Need to Die

Congress Is Supersizing the IRS. Here’s Why That’s Bad News for Everyday Americans

Why Biden’s Proposed Tax Hikes Won’t Cause More Unemployment

A New Analysis Just Debunked Biden’s No-Tax-Hike Promises

New Report Shows Stunning Success of Apprenticeship Program as College Alternative

I Run a Private School and am Against School Vouchers. Here’s Why

Feeling the Bern Is the Wrong Path for Conservatives—or Anyone

We’ll All Be Economic Casualties in the War on Wealth

Why “Taxing the Rich” Always Ends Up Landing on the Middle Class Instead

5 People Join the Middle-Class Every Second, Two Economists Say

America’s Record Middle-Class Earnings Exposes the ‘Imaginary Hobgoblin’ of Income Inequality

The Growth of the World’s Middle Class May Be the Greatest Story of Our Age

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Wrong about the Upper Middle Class

Occupational Licensing Reform: A Bipartisan Blueprint for Helping Low-Income Workers

Why Our Shrinking Middle Class Is a Good Thing

The Great Enrichment Was Built on Ideas, Not Capital

Why Isn’t the Job Market Listening to the Experts?

Tax Hikers Are Getting More Open about Targeting the Middle Class