- In our era of inequality, luxury capitalism is thriving (New Statesman America)
- Easing into the Elite (Society Pages)
- The World’s Wealthiest Women Are a Rare Breed (Bloomberg)
- It takes $1.7 million to get your kid into an elite college, according to rich people (Business Insider)
- Doomsday Prep for the Super Rick (The New Yorker)
Upper Middle Class
- The Birth of the New American Aristocracy (The Atlantic)
- How Do You Know When You're Upper Middle Class? (Money)
- The Hoarding of the American Dream (The Atlantic)
Middle Class
- How does the average average American spend their paycheck? (The Motley Fool)
- Compare Your Wealth to the Average American Net Worth (The Balance)
- The good news about the hollowing out of America's middle class (Quartz)
- The World As We Knew It Is Gone: What We Can Do About The Decline Of The Middle Class (Seeking Alpha)
- America's Slowly Disappearing Middle Class (Investopedia)
- How America's Middle Class Compares to Europe's (Citylab)
- Researchers have answered a big question about the decline of the middle class (The Washington Post)
Working Class
- The Working Class That Wasn't (Citylab)
Working Poor
- Three quarters of Disney's Anaheim resort employees can't afford basic living expenses (Los Angeles Times)
- For many working minimum wage, the ends never meet (The Times-Picayune)
Underclass
Social Mobility
- How to Break the Poverty Cycle (The New York Times)
- I paid $300 an hour for the VIP experience at Disneyland, and it made me realize how wealth has transformed the American Dream (Business Insider)
- How to Escape the Poverty Trap for Good (The Guardian)
- Occupational licensing is a big reason the poor don't become rich (Washington Examiner)
- How attainable is the ‘California Dream’ today? (The Mercury News)
- Prosperity, Not Upward Mobility, Is What Matters (The Atlantic)