After growing up poor with just his single mom, Kent Bausman took deliberate steps to change his circumstances.

Unlike income, which often decreases once you retire, net worth reveals whether you're financially secure -- and which wealth ...

It's tax time in America, and as taxpayers total up how much they owe, or how much they'll get back from the IRS this year, one question bugs us all: Are we paying too much? More importantly, are you ...

Here are six factors that can prevent people from advancing up the financial ladder, regardless of whether the rungs have ...

As a generational cohort, annual incomes among Gen X in the United States are all over the map, especially when compared to the older baby boomers or the younger generations of millennials and Gen Z.

Ever wonder how some people seem to build wealth and turn their entire financial situation around in just a few years? We’re not talking about winning the lottery or landing a tech initial public ...

April of 2022 marks a 25-year milestone for the personal finance classic Rich Dad Poor Dad that still ranks as the #1 Personal Finance book of all time. And although 25 years have passed since Rich ...

In his article, “Correcting the Top 10 Tax Myths,” Manhattan Institute’s Brian Riedl writes that a commonly held tax myth is that European countries tax the rich more than the United States does. In ...

But Smith made that point that, having grown up in New York City, they saw the Kents as being middle-class because of the land, house, farm equipment, and more that they were able to maintain (check ...

54% of Americans believe they are in the middle class, and 52% of them actually are. Middle class status varies with location, with higher levels of income needed to make the cut in more expensive, ...

As with any age cohort, annual incomes among Gen Xers in the United States are all over the map. The gap between wealthy and poor Gen Xers (those born from 1965 to 1980) throughout American households ...