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Senate candidates won’t be able to ignore Social Security’s funding crisis this November, a Peterson Foundation survey shows. Battleground state voters in Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas said…

How to get seniors to spend $12 trillion in home equity.

Recently, I shared a sample budget of a family of four earning $408,000 a year on Twitter, the amount third-party data deems necessary to feel comfortable in San Francisco. To be…

A new analysis of more than 400,000 voters from the Cooperative Election Study (2016–2025) identifies a distinct and growing cluster of Americans: people with graduate degrees and household incomes of…

Americans’ confidence in higher education slipped to 38% this year, down from 42% in 2025, according to the new Lumina Foundation-Gallup Confidence in Higher Education survey. The drop erases most…

Key Takeaways: A new report by the National Cryptocurrency Association shows that one in four American adults now owns crypto. 67% of crypto holders aren’t a niche anymore, says Chief…

Americans are on pace to lose more money on legal gambling this year than at any point in the country’s history. A new analysis by economics writer Joseph Politano projects that…

Former Citicorp Inc. chief executive Walter Wriston once said “ capital goes where it’s welcome and stays where it’s well treated.” The line has become tax-policy wallpaper. It is, nevertheless,…

Americans are largely pessimistic about the state of the economy, a new CBS News/YouGov poll found. In the survey, released May 17, respondents largely called financial conditions “uncertain” and the…

This mistake is easy to make, but hard to dig your way out of.