poverty

Opinion: Household wealth plummets by $13.5 trillion, second-worst drop on record

Opinion: Household wealth plummets by $13.5 trillion, second-worst drop on record

US households lost an estimated $6.8 trillion in wealth in the first three quarters of 2022 as the SPX stock market, -0.73% DJIA, -0.90% COMP, -0.70% has lost more than 25% of its value, the Federal Reserve reported Friday in the government’s quarterly financial accounts. Nominal net worth fell 4.6% to $143.3 trillion, as the …

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‘Sweden has a poverty problem’: Social stores offer food at bargain prices

PA plump and prosperous Sweden, with its reputedly generous welfare system and abundance of green energy, should – in theory – be better equipped than most European countries to withstand the blows of the cost of living crisis on the continent. In terms of GDP per capita, it is the fifth richest member state in …

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