A homeless woman who turned a bus stop into a temporary home has spoken of her desperate fight to keep her family together after being told she needed to find a new place to live. Destiny Mitchell moved into the 3m (9.8ft) by 1m (3.2ft) glass and metal pad in Selly Oak, Birmingham, seven months ago with her 31-year-old boyfriend Ryan and her 44-year-old mother.The trio tried to give the graffiti-covered shelter a homey feel by adding a rug, drawers and even an old pair of Super Mario curtains...
When I was a kid, $100,000 sounded like an impossibly large sum of money. Even when I started working at my first professional job with an entry-level salary of $32,000, I thought that making $100,000 would allow one to be comfortably upper-middle class. I’m sure I’m not alone; a “six-figure salary” was, for a long time, shorthand for a “well-paid job.” But in 2024, with the cost of housing and childcare (not to mention inflation on basics like food), a family making $100,000 a year can have...
President Joe Biden has repeatedly said he won’t hike taxes on anyone earning less than $400,000, but then this week he promised on X to hike taxes on just about everyone. Now, to be fair, Biden may not have understood that’s what he’s saying. Letting the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act expire and “stay expired” […]
Depending on where you live, the salary needed to be middle class can vary greatly.
In America’s religious landscape, the groups attracting the most public attention are those staking out the poles in our political divides: the shrinking, aging, but still influential group of white evangelicals on the right vs. Black Protestants and the growing
Depending on where you live, the salary needed to be middle class can vary greatly.
Depending on where you live, the salary needed to be middle class can vary greatly.
Creditnews Research found that the least affordable U.S. metro areas are almost entirely on the Pacific Coast.
In addition to Massachusetts, you need an annual household salary of at least $50,000 to be considered middle class in 17 states.
Depending on where you live, the salary needed to be middle class can vary greatly.
Housing Costs Are Crushing The American Middle Class, But How Can We Fix The Problem? In a new poll conducted by the Financial Times and Michigan's Ross School of Business, data shows there is a rare bipartisan agreement among Republicans and Democrats – Both sides believe that there are no housing advantages for the their political opponents and 70% of leftists, independents and conservatives alike rate affordability as one of their top three concerns. In other words, Americans...
Industry research group Kantar said Ocado sales were 12.5% higher in the 12 weeks to April 14 than in the same period a year earlier.