Study: Low-Income Earners Can&#39;t Afford Apartment Rentals
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SALINAS, Calif. -- A new study that shows most low-income earners can&#39;t afford to rent an apartment. Those who live in Santa Cruz County may soon be squeezed out of the rental market.
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You'd think that lower-income users would be the ones stretching their dollars online, but that's not the case
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Privately insured, low-income workers with chronic medical conditions such as diabetes and asthma are being financially squeezed as employers shift the burden of higher health care costs to employees, a new study found.    The number of such individuals spending more than 5 percent of their income on out-of-pocket medical costs soared 48 percent to 2.2 million people from 2001 to 2003, according to a study released Thursday by the Center for Health System Change...
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As lenders tighten their standards more Americans chose to rent, not own. That's good news for landlords.
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An Associated Press analysis of new census data provides insight into the reasons for the slumping housing market: Since 1990, homeowners have faced a growing gap between their incomes and the price of their homes.
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The typical double-income family in   the United States is worse off financially than ever, a study   released on Thursday said, warning that few Americans have   saved enough to brace for financial setbacks.
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Nearly half of employed people in the world live on less than two dollars a day and another 500 million live on less than a dollar, according to the UN International Labour Organisation (ILO) World Employment Report 2004-2005.
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Few measures of income are more fundamental than putting a roof over one&#39;s head. So the Low-Income Housing Coalition has done a great service with its &quot;housing wage&quot; gauge.
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About one-third of the nation's cities have less affordable housing than they had a year ago, according to a survey released Thursday.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 7 -- Despite an intensified campaign against poverty, World Bank programs have failed to lift incomes in many poor countries over the past decade, leaving tens of millions of people suffering stagnating and even declining living standards, according to a report released Thursday by...
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The minimum wage may be on its way up in New York, but one new study said the amount wouldn&#39;t be enough to pay rent in the state.
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It takes residents of these 12 spots longer than most to afford a median-priced home.
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Low-income children who receive a high-quality preschool education are more likely to graduate from high school, commit fewer crimes and earn more than children who don&#39;t, a new study suggests.
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Not everyone has suffered from the current housing slump. Exceptions include entrepreneurs with deep experience in real estate and those who have carved out a special niche.
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NEW YORK -- Barely two years ago, Cristina Rodriguez and her three children were moored on the wrong side of the income gap. A high school dropout, she was making a little more than $200 a week, stapling price tags to shirts and boxing them at a Modell's warehouse. "I didn't use my mouth, didn't use my mind; I only used my hands. I was always going to be broke," she said....
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Rental housing in the Green Bay area and elsewhere in Wisconsin is more affordable than the national average, but an advocacy group says many poor Americans are still paying more than they can afford because salaries havenât kept up with rent and
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A record number of homeowners with high-cost mortgages have fallen behind on their payments or are facing foreclosure, a side effect of the growth in lending to people with poor credit, according to an industry group survey released yesterday.