Most Americans will make it to some rung of the middle class. Here’s how much you need to get to the next tier these days.

You could be earning $280,000 and still be middle class in this city. Arlington, Virginia sets the highest bar to be in the middle class with a threshold of $93,470 to $280,438.

The ghost in America? The middle class. The American economy is divided into three economic classes. The indigent, the middle class and the rich. The dividing line between indigent and middle ...

That middle class has so eroded in size and in purchasing power — and the wealth of our top earners has so exploded — that ...