Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Ian Cooper discusses managing asynchronous ...

New York City’s socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, struggled to define who the “working class” is in a word salad response to a question about the people he vows to fight for. Mamdani, in a lengthy ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani struggled to answer who he considers to be part of the "working class" during a New York Times interview on Saturday. New York Times journalist Lulu Garcia-Navarro ...

For the first time since he started teaching Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory nearly two decades ago, Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano gave his students a take-home ...

Illustration by Alisa Gao / The Atlantic. Sources: Al Drago / The Washington Post / Getty; Library of Congress; Marvin Joseph / The Washington Post / Getty. George Washington, this nation’s first ...

Earlier this year, our report, “The Middle Class Is Shrinking Because of a Booming Upper-Middle Class,” argued that the narrative of a “hollowed-out middle class” rests on counterintuitive class ...

Much has been made about the fact that the American middle class has been shrinking for decades now. But the main reason for that, as economists and the data continually explain, is the ongoing growth ...

The U.S. middle class is shrinking, but not because more Americans are poorer. Instead, more households are climbing into the echelons of the upper middle class due to income gains in recent decades, ...

Being classified as "middle class" in the United States today depends heavily on where you live—with the benchmark varying widely from one place to another. Visual Capitalist recently analyzed data ...

It’s been 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence — a milestone that invites not just celebration, but reflection. To illustrate two and a half centuries of U.S. history, Here & ...

Since President Donald Trump began his second term in 2025, the U.S. economy has seen some changes. According to the The Economist, GDP grew 1.4% in the fourth quarter, and the stock market has seen ...