How Does Social Security's 2.8% Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) for 2026 Compare, Historically, to Prior Raises?

Looking a bit further back, Social Security's 2.8% raise ties for the ninth-largest year-over-year increase since this ...

24 percent of households living paycheck to paycheck: Analysis

A quarter of American households are living paycheck to paycheck, according to a new analysis from Bank of America.  Slow ...

White House Hunts for Ways to Lower the Cost of Living

Aside from reducing tariffs, President Trump faces limits in his ability to bring down prices.

‘Things are pretty crappy.’ 1 in 4 US households are living paycheck to paycheck

Austin is living paycheck to paycheck and saving almost no money, one of the millions of Americans struggling to make ends meet in an increasingly unaffordable economy. Worse, the family-owned ...

Five years of living in a tiny home taught me that the biggest sacrifices had nothing to do with space or stuff

Living in a tiny home has come with surprising downsides that have negatively impacted my social life, relationships, and ...
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More Americans living paycheck to paycheck, data shows

New financial data reveals that more Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. The study, released by Bank of America on ...

Meet the 73-year-old who splits his time between Panama and the U.S.: ‘$500 is my cost of living, plus food’

Meet the 73-year-old who splits his time between Panama and the U.S.: ‘$500 is my cost of living, plus food’ With so many ...

Living according to your means | READER COMMENTARY

I never could understand Ben, a chemistry teacher in a New York City high school where I taught in the late 1960s. A ...