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Nationally, households earning more than $125,000 a year spent nearly 8% more in March than they did in January 2023, adjusted for inflation, according to the New York Fed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

As a result, many working-class Korean and Latino immigrant households lived side by side and often confronted similar challenges, including substandard housing conditions, landlord abuses and underfunded public schools.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2026

Plenty of households spend about what they earn, when they earn it, and others adjust slowly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

A report by the South Cotswolds Foodbank has found more than a third of households in the area who are turning to foodbanks are doing so for the first time.

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2026

Now for the boys’ names that are turning up these days in high-education households.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt