Thanks to the vagaries of geography, we live in a place where a public school teacher's salary sets us firmly in the middle class ... it's a ranch with three bedrooms, and a backyard big enough ...

[Subscribe to our newsletter here] Utah has a larger middle class proportionally than most of the rest of the country, and that share has increased slightly in recent decades. The Beehive State ...

A lot of Boston.com readers seem to be in agreement about one thing concerning the middle class in Massachusetts: There ain’t no such thing. “There are only two classes in the U.S.: Oligarchy ...