Going into debt to pay for groceries

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• As food prices rise, some consumers are turning to credit cards and other loans to buy groceries

  by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

  

  A new report from the Urban Institute suggests some consumers may be headed for a cliff.

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• How the gig economy could strengthen Social Security

  by Nova Safo, Emma Condon and Meredith Garretson Morbey

  

  In a recent piece in Bloomberg, labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards proposes a solution to the Social Security trust fund shortfall: change the tax treatment of the self-employed.

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