Money Matters Kaz Weida Jan 28, 2025

How to Safeguard Your Finances in a Trump 2.0 Economy

Kaz Weida Jan 28, 2025

Managing household finances in this new anti-middle-class economy might feel like a fool’s errand. But our new columnist shares indispensable advice to help navigate the brutal, ever-changing landscape.

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Money Matters Allie Volpe May 17, 2022

Young Americans Are Paying the High Cost for Inflation

Allie Volpe May 17, 2022

Inflation is hardly a new phenomenon, but factoring in high costs of living and student loan debt, American millennials and Gen Zers are more financially stressed and insecure than ever before.

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Broken Medicine Allie Volpe Mar 16, 2022

The Price of Becoming a Doctor

Allie Volpe Mar 16, 2022

The U.S. has fewer practicing physicians per capita than other wealthy, comparably sized countries, yet the road to becoming a doctor has never been more academically difficult—or costly.

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Money Matters Abby Lee Hood Feb 23, 2022

Saving ‘Main Street’ Means Reviving Small Businesses

Abby Lee Hood Feb 23, 2022

Small businesses have been called the “real economy.” But compared to their corporate competitors, most have struggled to secure enough aid to stay afloat through the pandemic.

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Money Matters Nicole Froio Feb 3, 2022

American Capitalism Needs a Reboot

Nicole Froio Feb 3, 2022

Capitalism’s all-encompassing hold on the worker’s life has led to burnout and mass resignations, but our economic system remains unchanged, largely because we’ve yet to tap into our collective power.

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Money Matters Jana Cholakovska Nov 15, 2021

Is the Supply Chain Crisis Our New Reality?

Jana Cholakovska Nov 15, 2021

A crisis like this shouldn’t come as a surprise: Our economic system is working as intended.

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Money Matters Tatiana Walk-Morris Aug 2, 2021

Can Americans Ever Escape Debt?

Tatiana Walk-Morris Aug 2, 2021

Debt relief—for student loans, for medical costs, for household expenses—begins with addressing the socioeconomic inequalities that keep Americans owing money.

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Money Matters Tori Powell Mar 2, 2021

Is Forex Trading the Latest Pyramid Scheme?

Tori Powell Mar 2, 2021

What some foreign exchange traders claim to be an industry that is becoming the latest "Black stock market," others warn is being utilized by scammers to prey on financially vulnerable communities.

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Sip On This DAME Dec 14, 2018

Money Isn’t Just Power, It’s Freedom

DAME Dec 14, 2018

Ellevest CEO Sallie Krawcheck reminds women of the key to true gender equality: Learning to take control of our money is the only way to dismantle the patriarchy.

Feminism Rachel Kramer Bussel Aug 5, 2014

I Feel Guilty for Not Being the Breadwinner

Rachel Kramer Bussel Aug 5, 2014

One writer went from making more money than her boyfriend, to making less. And she found the shift has more to do with power and independence than dollars and cents.