Tag: poverty
Minimum-wage workers in 21 states and Washington D.C. will have larger paychecks this year. But it’s still extremely difficult to eke out a living on the minimum wage, as demonstrated by this video game. The game, “Spent,” was actually the topic of Squared Away’s very first blog in 2011 and is worth featuring again. T…
90% of households have income under $157,500, and median income and earnings haven’t grown in decades. If you hang out in the Northeast and talk to financial types and academics who worry about pensions and retirement income, it is easy to get lulled into the notion that the mass affluent – the upper middle of…
