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With 5.6 Million People and Counting, the 'Move Your Money' Campaign Worked
Occupy Wall Street and Bank Transfer Day prompted millions of Americans to ditch their old predatory financial institutions.
Lifestyle
The Vicious Cycle of Status Envy: Why We Buy Things We Can't Afford
Retail therapy may be a quick fix to boost our sense of status, but in the end, it kicks us when we're down.
News
People Are Awesome: Connecticut Lotto Winners Immediately Give Away $1 Million to Vets
A team of wealthy money managers who won a Powerball jackpot has already started giving millions away.
News
Intermission: Protest Big Banks with Their Own Junk Mail
Big banks have been sending you the means to protest their greed for years. You just never realized it.
News
A Step-by-Step Guide to Leaving Your Big Predatory Bank
If you've been complaining about the sins of the financial industry for the past few years, here's your chance to fight back.
News
And Justice for Some: Just How Rich Are America's Richest?
Occupy Wall Street has been protesting the wealth divide for weeks now. Here's a primer on the scale of that divide.
News
Most Americans Don't Believe Nation Is Economically Divided
New research shows that, despite mounting evidence, most Americans still don't believe they're split into "haves" and "have-nots."
Culture
Dealbreaker: I Can't Afford Him
I grew up lower middle class and was the fourth owner of my Honda Accord. He could fly around the world if he happened to wake up bored.
Education
Skipping School: A Look at Free Higher-Education Alternatives
An increasing number of free and cheap higher-education alternatives are changing post-secondary education.
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15 Percent of Americans Are Now on Food Stamps
The number of people getting money to feed themselves and their families hit an all-time high in May.
News
Uncredited: I Don't Have a Credit Card, and Maybe You Shouldn't Either
As our nation comes to terms with the possibility of its credit score being downgraded, a reflection on never having credit debt in the first place.
News
White Americans Now Have 20 Times the Wealth of Black Americans
When the housing bubble burst, a lot of blacks and Latinos took a big hit that's left an extra-wide gulf between them and whites.
Culture
How the Film Industry's Big Budgets Are Killing Movie Theaters
With Netflix streaming on the rise, pricey movie theaters are less and less attractive. Let's lower film budgets and thus ticket prices.
Culture
What Would Be Your First Purchase If You Hit the Jackpot? The Community Answers
Business
Why Are 1 Billion Dollar-Coins Just Sitting in the Federal Reserve?
The Fed has piles and piles of dollar-coins that no one wants. How did they get there?
Education
What's the Key to Ending the Math and Science Teacher Shortage?
The real problem isn't recruiting teachers. It's keeping them in the classroom.
News
Capital Stupidity: The Death Penalty Costs California $300 Million Per Execution
Not only is the death penalty racist, classist, and ultra-violent, a new study says it's tremendously wasteful, too.
Culture
Homeschool: How to Get Your Finances in Order
You can't control those reckless banks and free-borrowing governments, but you can get your own budget in order. Here's how.
