In the United States, a person's net worth is a barometer of their financial standing, particularly as they approach retirement. This figure, calculated by subtracting liabilities from assets, varies ...

Lucy Lazarony is an experienced personal finance journalist and writer who got her start in 1998 writing about financial topics. She writes accessible and easy-to-understand articles about credit, ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Nonprofit Quarterly. The economic and cultural shocks keep on coming.

"Upper class" is one of those terms that everyone seems to aspire to, but there's no clear, one-size-fits-all definition. While it often gets thrown around in conversations about wealth and success, ...

In retirement, net worth shows the total result of a lifetime’s savings, debts and investments. This measure is often more ...

Most Americans will make it to some rung of the middle class. Here's how much you need to get to the next tier these days. "Essentially, every client we work with views themselves as middle class" - ...

What if the wealthy had to give their money away after a certain net worth? Find out the potential positive and negative ...

Sabotaging her job. Refusing to work. Demanding she accounts for every cent. Destroying her credit. Restricting food, shelter, transportation, and medicine. These are just a few examples of economic ...