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  • Jacqueline Byers' salary is in the low $40,000 range, but she budgets, tracks her spending and saves up for what she really loves -- travel.
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    Jacqueline Byers' salary is in the low $40,000 range, but she budgets, tracks her spending and saves up for what she really loves — travel.

  • New government guidelines are taking incandescent bulbs off the market, leaving us with compact fluorescents and LEDs. But now there's a new language for bulb shoppers to learn.

  • Reporter Mitchell Hartman discusses the need for Marketplace's new Wealth & Poverty desk.

  • Feb 24, 2012

    The $10,000 home

    Neighborhoods in Atlanta have been devastated as home prices have fallen. How are residents coping with moving from high on the hog to the other side of the tracks?

  • Feb 24, 2012

    Save our savings

    Marketplace economics editor Chris Farrell says it's all very well telling us to save, but where are we supposed to put our money?

  • Marketplace's economics editor Chris Farrell says government needs to push sound saving, rather than sound borrowing.

  • So much for the end of crazy credit card solicitations -- card companies have become more aggressive than ever. We look at which solicitation techniques work and why.
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    So much for the end of crazy credit card solicitations — card companies have become more aggressive than ever. We look at which solicitation techniques work and why.

  • Feb 24, 2012

    Pain at the pump

    Washington bureau chief John Dimsdale discusses how rising gas prices are hurting consumers, enough to get the president's attention.

  • Piggy for a frugal valentine
    Markus Mitterauer

    Our plastic porcine pal heads to Wisconsin this week, to the home of a man who cooked his way to his wife's heart on Valentine's Day.

  • An extremely tough job market for young people has seen kids returning home to live with their parents in droves. As these households expand like the bellows of an accordion, stress often follows.
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    The number of adults who are moving back in with their parents is on the rise. Author Katherine Newman discusses how families are affected when the kids move back in.

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