Wealth across the United States is in flux, with income gaps growing sharper even as median household incomes creep upward. According to 2024 data from the Census Bureau, the U.S. median household ...

With high mortgage rates and soaring home prices, the dream of homeownership has escaped the reach of many Americans. That’s why it might come as a surprise that some of the poorest states across the ...

Methodology: To generate the income for what it takes to bring home a $100,000 salary by state, GOBankingRates surveyed income taxes at both the federal and state level (including FICA). Income tax ...

KENTUCKY (FOX 56) — States are not created equal regarding gross assets, the Chamber of Commerce found in a new study. To determine wealth disparity between each state, the Chamber of Commerce used ...

Wealth and income levels can vary greatly from state to state — for instance, what it takes to be wealthy in California is not the same amount of money required to be rich in Missouri, due to vast ...

When Anna Wolfe won the Pulitzer Prize for her dogged reporting on Mississippi’s welfare fraud scandal, she had no inkling she was soon going to have to contend with the possibility of going to jail.