Romney says 'middle-income' $250k and below
BOSTON (AP) - Mitt Romney is promising to reduce taxes on middle-income Americans...
Obama team: Romney, Ryan would hurt middle class
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's campaign says Mitt Romney's selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate shows a commitment to 'budget-busting tax cuts' for the wealthy...
Obama to push extension of middle-class tax cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is launching a push to extend tax cuts for the middle class, as he seeks to shift the election-year economic debate...
19th century middle class black household excavated
theGRIO REPORT - University of Michigan archaeologists have resumed their dig of the home to James Holliday, a freed slave and one of the first African-Americans to work as a cook at the Annapolis Naval Academy...
America in denial about income inequality?
OPINION - In an odd, roundabout way, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has given Americans an opportunity to witness what so many of us have steadfastly refused to acknowledge: Yes, America, we are a class-stratified society...
Census: Widening income gap as blacks leave cities
WASHINGTON (AP) - Affluent black Americans who are leaving industrial cities for the suburbs and the South are shifting traditional lines between rich and poor, according to new census data...
'Moving on up' isn't what it used to be for blacks
OPINION - According to new analysis of census data, the most successful blacks and Latinos are more likely to have poor neighbors than their wealthier white counterparts...
Researchers unearth remants of black village at Central Park
NEW YORK - Remnants of an entire black community pushed out by the creation of Central Park in the 1850s are being given new life thanks to a team of anthropologists and historians...
Black families see bigger loss of income in recession
VIDEO - Most Americans have felt the sting of the recent economic depression, however no group has felt the massive loss of overall income...
Black economic gains reversed in recession
BALTIMORE (AP) - For the black community, where unemployment continues to rise, job loss has knocked them out of the middle class and back into poverty...
