If you are from a lower-middle-class household, navigating what you will and won’t be able to buy in 2025 will be even trickier. Caitlyn Moorhead contributed to the reporting for this article ...

In the early 1990s, by contrast, “our lower-middle-class group had pretty comparable outcomes to the upper middle class” in measures of health and economic well-being, Mr. Chapel said. No more.

If you are from a lower-middle-class household, navigating what you will and won’t be able to buy in 2025 will be even trickier. Caitlyn Moorhead contributed to the reporting for this article ...