The U.S. job market is increasingly polarized, with high-paid and low-paid occupations growing fast, while middle-class jobs are vanishing. ... This is worth exploring a bit more in chart form.

The following eight charts offer a brief snapshot: #1: Wages are down Middle class incomes have shrunk 8.5 percent since 2000, after enjoying mostly steady growth during the previous decade.

But the U.S. economy may now be shifting gears toward more middle class jobs. "The tide has begun to turn," William Dudley, president of the New York Federal Reserve, said Thursday.

And one of its charts emphasizes that while job polarization has hurt everyone, women have fared far better than men. True, women in middle-skill jobs took a much bigger hit, getting booted out of ...

Cass also ran the numbers for female earners, whose median wage is about 80 percent that of men. In 1985, the typical woman needed to work 45 weeks to cover the four big annual expenses; today she ...

Right now, middle-class households are in "relatively good shape," according to a new Bank of America study. However, the study also states that this may not be the case if the labor market ...

Middle-Class Jobs That Are Disappearing. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, there are several industries that support middle-income households that have seen a year-over-year decrease ...

President Trump says that the white working class is being pushed out of the job market. But that doesn't seem to be true for the best-paying blue-collar jobs.

All together, these generally middle-class professions — which pay from $40,000 on the low end to more than $100,000 a year — are forecast to shed more than 600,000 jobs by 2033, figures from ...