One analysis suggests that modern budgets push the effective poverty line far above official levels, revealing why many six-figure earners still feel financially strained.

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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 ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is among President Trump's Cabinet heads who try to smile away the economic reality facing American households, but the public isn't buying it, Times columnist Michael ...