Understanding your paycheck has become more complicated than ever. Between federal taxes, state income tax, local taxes, ...

More Americans say they are struggling to make ends meet, as affordability becomes an increasingly central concern across the U.S. in the run-up to holiday season. According to a recent survey by ...

A growing share of lower-income Americans are struggling to get by financially as their wages fail to keep up with inflation, according to a recent analysis. Roughly 29% of lower-income households are ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the year that 28.6% of lower-income households were living paycheck to paycheck. It was 2024. More American households are ...

Just a few months back, Investopedia contributor Jessica Gibson reported that PNC Bank’s Financial Wellness in the Workplace Report found that 67% of Americans are stuck in the cycle of living ...

A quarter of American households are living paycheck to paycheck, according to a new analysis from Bank of America. Slow wage growth has contributed to an increase in households with limited savings.

Washington — The more than 1.4 million federal employees who have gone without pay during the 43-day government shutdown could begin getting paychecks as soon as this Sunday, while others will have to ...

Austin H. can’t wait to buy a house and start a family. But right now, the 34-year-old is barely getting by. Austin is living paycheck to paycheck and saving almost no money, one of the millions of ...

(WISH) — Nearly a quarter of U.S. households are living paycheck to paycheck in 2025, according to Bank of America data released Tuesday, though the growth rate of such households has slowed ...

Some senators are donating their salaries in solidarity with federal workers. Members of Congress are guaranteed by the Constitution to be paid during a federal government shutdown. But at least 55 of ...

As the federal government shutdown threatens to become the longest ever, thousands of federal workers in Wisconsin are missing paychecks. Wisconsin is home to about 18,000 federal workers, according ...

The average American spends more than a third of their paycheck within the first 12 hours of receiving it, according to new research. A survey of 2,000 employed Americans split evenly by generation ...