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To feel middle class, you have to be wealthy
Middle-income Americans aren't middle-class; that's reserved for the rich now.
Juliana Kaplan
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Middle-class Gen Xers are facing a new retirement challenge: their student loans
Student-loan debt is weighing down older workers, who may see their Social Security garnished to pa…
Juliana Kaplan,Ayelet Sheffey
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Inflation is scrambling Americans' perceptions of middle-class life
"I feel like I can make ends meet, but I can't really move this lifestyle," one person told Busines…
Jennifer Sor
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Here's how much money you need to make to be middle class in each US state
A Business Insider analysis finds varying income levels between states that qualify as middle class…
Noah Sheidlower
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More Americans are feeling a six-figure salary can't afford them a middle-class lifestyle
In today's big story, we're looking at people who feel like a middle-class salary doesn't equal a m…
Dan DeFrancesco
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Here's how much money it takes to be in the upper class in each state
This map shows how much you need to make to be considered upper class across the country — an…
Noah Sheidlower
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A working-class immigrant neighborhood in Queens banned cars along a major road. The new park is a 'superhighway of kids and families and neighbors.'
Jackson Heights, Queens, was the 'epicenter of the epicenter' of COVID-19. Now, it's a model for re…
Eliza Relman
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Here are the 10 states where the middle class pays the most in taxes and the 9 states where they pay no state income tax at all
For example, Tennessee (ranked No. 24), Texas (No. 21), and Washington (No. 5) are in the top half …
Cork Gaines
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Deloitte projects India's FY25 GDP growth at 6.6%
Deloitte India on Friday said it estimates India's GDP growth at 6.6 per cent in the current fiscal…
PTI
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Trump's wide-reaching tariff plan will hurt average Americans and only help the top 1%, Nobel-winning economist says
Experts say Trump's proposed tariffs would only benefit the wealthiest Americans, and cause inflati…
Filip De Mott
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Gen Xers who began their financial independence journeys in their 40s and 50s explain how they're on pace to meet their early retirement goals
BI spoke to late starters who started to save and invest in their 40s and 50s and set themselves up…
Noah Sheidlower
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How a Gen Xer went from declaring bankruptcy at 30 to being on track to retire early in her 50s
Chris Elle Dove, who for a few years relied on Social Security survivor benefits, is set to retire …
Noah Sheidlower
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There's a huge pay raise on the way for clean energy workers
The Treasury Department unveiled a new rule that says developers could get bigger tax credits if th…
Juliana Kaplan
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Wall Street wants boomers to work longer. But nobody wants to hire them.
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink's solution to the retirement crisis is for everyone to work into their 70s…
Ann C. Logue
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Demands in the Middle East risk leaving an aircraft carrier-sized hole in US naval power in the Western Pacific
As the fights in the Middle East continue to pull the US military's focus to challenges there, a ca…
Chris Panella
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Forget red and blue: America's real geographic divide is between bosses and their employees
Executives in New York, call centers in Orlando: American cities are facing a growing power imbalan…
Ned Resnikoff
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Why so many baby boomers and Gen Zers are feeling lonely and happy at the same time: 'I could be in a room full of people that love me and still feel super lonely'
Boomers and Gen Z might not have much in common, but new research explains why the two generations …
Ayelet Sheffey
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Corporate America is going through a middle-management meltdown
The thinning of Corporate America's middle management is putting millennials and Gen Z at risk.
Dan DeFrancesco
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A key phase in Biden's new student-loan forgiveness plan has wrapped up, bringing borrowers one step closer to relief. But pushback is brewing.
The public comment period for Biden's new student-loan forgiveness plan is over, meaning implementa…
Ayelet Sheffey
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The US Navy's turning to its third carrier strike group as its warships react to Middle East conflicts with no end in sight
The USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group is soon headed to the Red Sea, where it will take o…