Rising food and housing costs have hit the lowest-income Americans the hardest in recent years.

The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration ...

Borrowers earning more than $150,000 a year are showing increasing signs of stress, according to a new report from the credit ...

Let's take a closer look at the data. The table below shows the net worth of Americans at every income level based on data from the Federal Reserve. Remember, as the table shows, how much you make ...

It won’t come as any surprise to learn that millions of Americans are trying to put money away for retirement, with varying ...

Despite a strong economy, the share of Americans making only the minimum credit card payment hit a 12-year high and ...

Primerica Household Budget Index™ (HBI™), an economic snapshot solely focused on the financial well-being of middle-income ...

The federal poverty level (FPL) affects everything from ... while the average American household spends 33.8% of its income on housing, American households earning less than $30,000 spend 41.2 ...

Respondents to the New York Fed’s monthly survey said they expect unemployment to remain in check and felt more positive ...

The cost of living crisis in the US has eased somewhat, but low-income Americans are still struggling ... up from 2019 levels. That share is higher, at around 35%, for households making less ...