We used to be trapped. And by “we,” I really do mean all of us. A few hundred years ago, the majority of the world lived in extreme poverty, and even in recent decades, people lucky enough to clear ...

A record-high 581,000 Connecticut households, about 40%, couldn’t afford a basic “survival” budget in 2023, according to a new analysis from the United Way of Connecticut. And while more than 60% of ...

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Nov 12, 2025 Nov 12, 2025 Updated Nov 28, 2025 FOR TWO HOURS, they walked in another person’s shoes. But it didn’t take more than about 15 minutes for the stress to kick in. A simulation of what it’s ...

HAMPTON, Va. — Hampton is at a 13% poverty level, the fourth-highest in Hampton Roads behind Portsmouth, Norfolk, and Newport News, the Department of Economic Empowerment and Family Resilience (EEFR) ...

Part 2 of a series explaining how, evidence to the contrary, most Americans, most journalists and most policymakers believe the U.S. retirement system is failing. Drawn from The Real Retirement Crisis ...

The immigrants President Biden welcomed to the U.S. over the last four years were poorer and less educated than their predecessors, according to a new study released Wednesday. The number of newcomers ...

A record-high 581,000 Connecticut households, about 40%, couldn’t afford a basic “survival” budget in 2023, according to a new analysis from the United Way of Connecticut. And while more than 60% of ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Home to less than 5% of the global population, while ...

On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, a wealth manager named Michael Green published a Substack post arguing that a $140,000 income is the new poverty level for a family of four in America, where the ...

President Donald Trump’s firings at the Department of Health and Human Services included the entire office that sets federal poverty guidelines, which determine whether tens of millions of Americans ...

Theo Bray is in his 12th week of recovery from a near-fatal car accident that left him with multiple fractures in his vertebrae, hip and pelvis. Bray, who has a bachelor's degree, helps support his ...