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Why Social Status Still Determines Opportunity and Mobility

Social stratification refers to the structured hierarchy of classes that divides people by wealth, education, power, and ...
Opinion

California’s New Class Divide

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As social media age restrictions spread, is the internet entering its Victorian era?

A wave of proposed social media bans for young people has swept the globe recently, fueled by mounting concern about the ...
Greater Good

Talking to Someone From a Different Social Class? Here’s How Your Body Reacts

A new study examines how comfortable and attuned people are when talking with others, depending on their socioeconomic status ...
The Wire on MSN

OBC Sub-Classification: India's Long Road to Social Justice

After the constitution came into force, the first challenge to caste-based reservation was brought before the Supreme Court in State of Madras versus Champakam Dorairajan (AIR 1951 SC 226).
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You can instantly tell someone's social class by how they do these 8 everyday things

We can’t control everything about our lives, but we can adjust how we move through them. We pick up subtle cues about each other all day long—on the bus, in the checkout line, in Slack threads, at the ...
Wired

Heritage Foundation Uses Bogus Stat to Push a Trans Terrorism Classification

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, the Republican policy apparatus went immediately to work. The Heritage Foundation, which published Project 2025, and its spinoff, the Oversight Project, issued a ...
Investopedia

Discover the Real Average Net Worth Across Classes in America and See Where You Fit

Lucy Lazarony is an experienced personal finance journalist and writer who got her start in 1998 writing about financial topics. She writes accessible and easy-to-understand articles about credit, ...
The New York Times

Democrats Cannot Just Buy Back the Working Class

Mr. Kuhn, a producer of the forthcoming PBS documentary “Hard Hat Riot,” is the author of “The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution.” Democrats are ...
AOL

Social Security: How Much the Average Middle-Class Retiree Receives in Benefits at Age 80

On average, an 80-year-old receives $2,006.20 per month in Social Security retirement benefits, according to Social Security Administration (SSA) data, as of December 2024. In comparison, the average ...
The Conversation

Canada’s class divide at the ballot box is growing

Matt Polacko receives funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC). University of Toronto provides ...
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No, Social Security payments were not renamed 'Federal Benefit Payments'

Since at least 2012, a persistent internet rumor has claimed that U.S. Social Security payments are being renamed as "Federal Benefit Payments." In August 2025, the rumor spread again in various ...