1. Workers are being taxed on more earnings to fund the program Social Security’s main funding source is payroll tax revenue. In fact, it’s a decline in payroll tax revenue that has the program’s Trustees worried about benefit cuts in a little more than 10 years. As baby boomers ex...

Marissa Sanchez will take over the personnel department after working as the interim director since February. Paul Navazio, a new addition to the city, will oversee the city’s finances. Navazio starts Monday. Navazio and Sanchez will each receive an annual salary of $199,500. The new hir...

Decentralised finance is a programmable financial ecosystem based on distributed ledger technologies that lets users trade, lend, and invest without relying on traditional intermediaries. This column discusses the underlying technology through the lens of a conceptual framework that describes decent...

Working for a startup often means taking on a little bit more uncertainty in exchange for a potentially brighter future. You might be putting in long hours to help grow a company that you think will be the next Amazon, Netflix, or Uber. And you might have accepted a slightly lower base salary than y...

Workers are stressed, and money worries are a big reason for their sleepless nights and lowered mental health. Employees are increasingly looking to their employer for guidance to help them cope with the financial strain they’re feeling. In fact, while 83 percent of the 2,840 benefits decision...

I moved into my future husband’s home seven years ago. We were married two years later, but I never asked to be added to the deed to the house. Last month, my husband died. His two sons live out of state. They never came to Arizona to see their father in the past seven years, […]...

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s Friday ruling striking down the Biden administration’s student loan debt cancellation plan, Republicans are moving forward with their own proposed solution. Conservative lawmakers from both chambers, vocally opposed to the president’s landmar...

I want to make sure that I leave an inheritance for my son from my first marriage. I remarried 12 years ago. My husband has no children. I do have a prenuptial agreement. My husband and I are financially fine. We own our own home and have adequate investments. I wouldn’t want to leave my [&hel...

The idea that the government should do everything in its power to make recessions brief and recoveries rapid sounds banal, but it’s a big difference from how policy was made in the first two decades of this century.A string of positive economic news — slowing inflation, an upward revision in...

Rising carbon emissions and biodiversity losses, which have resulted in huge imbalances, pose one of the gravest threats to the existence of mankind. The vagaries of human-induced environmental threats spare none, with every section being battered by its ill effects. Vulnerability of socially and ec...