Here’s the inflation breakdown for February 2024 — in one chart
Shoppers are seen in a Kroger supermarket in Atlanta on Oct. 14, 2022. Elijah Nouvelage | AFP | Getty Images Consumers continued to contend with...
Here’s why Americans can’t stop living paycheck to paycheck
For many Americans, payday can’t come soon enough. As of June, 61% of adults are living paycheck to paycheck, according to a LendingClub report. In...
Social Security COLA will be 8.7% in 2023, highest increase in 40 years
Azmanjaka | E+ | Getty Images Amid record high inflation, Social Security beneficiaries will get an 8.7% increase to their benefits in 2023, the highest...
U.S. Incomes Fail to Grow for Second Year in a Row, Census Figures Show
Americans as a whole have experienced two years in a row of flat or declining household income, new government data showed Tuesday, reflecting the pandemic’s...
Student loan forgiveness could cost $2,500 per taxpayer, research finds
Student-loan debt activists rally outside the White House a day after President Biden announced a plan that would cancel $10,000 in student loan debt for...
Inflation has caused more than a third of adults to tap their savings
More than a third of U.S. adults are dipping into their savings accounts to help them afford higher prices, new research shows. In the face...
The Upper Middle Class Is Getting Squeezed
By Dion Rabouin | Photographs by Dina Litovsky for The Wall Street Journal July 25, 2022 5:30 am ET Mark Yu had a profitable pandemic....
70% of Americans think a recession is coming. How to prepare
David Espejo | Getty Images Experts are weighing the odds as to how likely a recession is and how fast it could come upon us....
What stagflation is, and how to prepare for it
Runaway inflation has raised fears that the economy is headed towards a return of stagflation but a host of Wall Street banks such as Goldman...
36% of high earners are living paycheck to paycheck
South_agency | E+ | Getty Images More than a third of high-earning American workers feel strapped for cash — a share that has risen dramatically...