Future of the Middle Class Initiative

Zhang Yingyi, a 30-year-old administrative assistant and a mother of a three-year-old girl, smiles as she poses for a photograph at her home in Shanghai, China,

The global middle class

Homi Kharas and Fred Dews

Friday, May 19, 2017

Happiness for All?

Happiness for All?

By Carol Graham

A man watches the Huaxi village, at Jiangsu province December 2, 2010. In China's richest village of Huaxi, a booming market town of 36,000 in the affluent eastern province of Jiangsu, every family has at least one house, two cars and
$250,000 in the bank. Officials from elsewhere in China tour Huaxi to find out how this once sleepy village, just 576 residents in the 1950s, is now so rich and
why non-local businessmen would donate million-dollar factories to buy the privilege of a local residence permit. Picture taken December 2, 2010. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS SOCIETY) - RTXVCES

The unprecedented expansion of the global middle class

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

People walk after the rain along the Bund near the Huangpu River, as Typhoon Muifa passes, near the coastal area of Shanghai August 7, 2011. Typhoon Muifa, which was expected to cause serious storm conditions in Shanghai this weekend, has been downgraded to a category 2 storm and is not expected to be a direct hit. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (CHINA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT IMAGES OF THE DAY) FOR BEST QUALITY IMAGE SEE GF2EA470RG501 - RTR2POU5

Middle class prosperity can save the planet

Monday, February 13, 2017

Man rubs his eyes as he waits in a line of jobseekers, to attend the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. career fair held by the New York State department of Labor in New York

6 charts showing race gaps within the American middle class

Richard V. Reeves and Dayna Bowen Matthew

Friday, October 21, 2016

Middle-skilled workers still making up for lost ground on earnings

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

New York street corner

The poor and the middle class need jobs, jobs, and more jobs

Isabel V. Sawhill

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Workers sort a working gloves in Pittards world class leather manufacturing company in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, March 22, 2016. Picture taken March 22, 2016. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri - RTSDHGV

The US-Africa Business Forum: Africa’s “middle class” and the “in-between” sector—A new opening for manufacturing?

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

"Dream Hoarders" cover.

Dream Hoarders

By Richard V. Reeves

2017

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Not just college: Technical education as a pathway to the middle class

Michael J. Petrilli

Friday, April 1, 2016