Future of the Middle Class Initiative

A family hold hands as they walk through Times Square during a warm winter day in New York March 6, 2012. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY) - GM1E8370EKC01

How to build a stronger middle class: With respect.

Richard V. Reeves

Monday, May 21, 2018

Panelists on stage at the launch event of the Future of the Middle Class Initiative.

A policy wish list for the middle class

Richard V. Reeves and Katherine Guyot

Monday, May 14, 2018

Olivia Caceras holds one of her children as she and other marchers prepare to start a 140-mile walk to the Mexican border, in solidarity with hundreds of hopeful asylum seekers who are currently traveling northbound in a caravan through Mexico, from central Los Angeles, California, U.S. April 22, 2018. REUTERS/David McNew - RC1E7A36A840

Defining the middle class: Cash, credentials, or culture?

Richard V. Reeves, Katherine Guyot, and Eleanor Krause

Monday, May 7, 2018

Who is the American middle class? A comparison of 12 definitions

A dozen ways to be middle class

Richard V. Reeves, Katherine Guyot, and Eleanor Krause

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

The future of the middle class

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM EDT

A homeless person (L) sleeps on the steps of Federal Hall on Wall St. in New York City, U.S., February 28, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid - RC11086D6B50

The trend toward inequality has slowed, but so has income growth

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

The new John Lewis store at the Westfield shopping centre in White City is seen in London, Britain. March 19, 2018. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls - RC1A6D6B01F0

Is there a middle-class crisis in Europe?

Maurizio Bussolo, Jonathan Karver, and Luis-Felipe López-Calva

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Randy Johnson, 17, a high school student, poses for a portrait between games of basketball outside a friend's residence in Ferguson, Missouri July 21, 2015. When asked how Michael Brown's death affected him, Johnson said, "I don't trust the law anymore. I could be next." When asked what changes he has seen in his community over the past year, Johnson said, "The police don't come around no more. They don't want an incident like that." On August 9, 2014 a white police officer shot unarmed black teenager Michael Brown dead in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri.

The inheritance of black poverty: It’s all about the men

Scott Winship, Richard V. Reeves, and Katherine Guyot

Thursday, March 22, 2018

A shadowed family walks through a town.

The changing identity of America’s middle class

Camille Busette, Richard V. Reeves, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

A shadowed family walks through a town.

The middle class is becoming race-plural, just like the rest of America

Richard V. Reeves and Camille Busette

Tuesday, February 27, 2018