Dear Chuck, Last year was the first time I had ever heard of Frugal February. Our family of four plans to try it, and we welcome some of your ideas to make it work. – Family Needs to Save More

Despite being better educated, working more, and earning higher incomes than their counterparts from three decades ago, more than half of young adults between the ages of 18 to 34 are financially dependent on their parents, with many still living at home, unmarried, childless and mired in debt, a new study from the Pew Research Center shows.

By: Matthew Hennessey – wsj.com – December 20, 2023 The lockdowns and lockouts of 2020 dealt a reputational blow to the education blob—that quasipublic syndicate of teachers unions, government bureaucracies, brand-name credentialing institutions and their media allies whose mission is to keep taxpayer money flowing to public schools. Most of that money is linked to students, many of whom left...

By: Jason L. Riley – wsj.com – December 12, 2023 That advice, more popularly known as the “success sequence,” is often credited to research done by Brookings Institution scholars Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins, though others have made similar observations. In his recent book, “Agency,” Ian Rowe of the American Enterprise Institute writes that the message “has attracted many admirers...

Within months, all but the top 1% of consumers will likely be doing worse than they were before COVID, in the bank’s view. Source: 99% of Americans to Be Financially Worse-Off Than Pre-COVID in 2024

By: Melissa S. Kearney – washingtontimes.com – September 17, 2023 There has been a huge transformation in the way children are raised in the United States: the erosion of the convention of raising children inside a two-parent home. This shift is often not publicly challenged or lamented, in an effort to be inclusive of a diversity of family arrangements. But this...

Suicides climbed to a record 49,500 last year, putting the suicide rate higher than it has been since the beginning of World War II, according to government data released Thursday.

California Democrats pass bill allowing children to be placed in state custody if parents aren’t “woke” enough. Worse, the bill allows “interns” and “trainees” to make the decision! Reform California says the law is a “dangerous” and “illegal” assault on parents’ rights.

Across a wide age range, a record number of Americans are remaining single. Recent data shows that the average age for marriage for both men and women now hovers around 30.

Where do we find a few good men? This is the question the recently concluded season 3 of the PBS Masterpiece series All Creatures Great and Small proposes to answer.