The latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Consumer Expenditures underscores what PYMNTS Intelligence has found for months: Food and shelter, among the...
Monday (Sept. 9) offered up a snapshot of consumer sentiment on where inflation is headed, their overall feelings about managing a mounting debt load, and...
Get enough data points in place, and you have a trend. As bank earnings have started to roll in — thus far, from JPMorgan, Wells...
Amid news that the U.S. job market is cooling, first-time unemployment claims are up and 64% of Americans now live paycheck to paycheck, comes this...
The big consumer news last Friday was that the University of Michigan’s June Consumer Sentiment Index hit a seven-month low. Many scratched their heads, particularly...
Through scores of reports on the paycheck-to-paycheck economy, PYMNTS Intelligence has found that there’s a commonality across income levels and demographics: Most of our collective...
When is a loan not a loan? That is, in one sense, the question at the heart of proposed new federal legislation around earned wage access (EWA)...
The good news is the U.S. economy added more than 300,000 jobs last month and many U.S. workers are now earning higher wages. The not-so-great news...
Wages are increasing. The unemployment rate’s lower. The U.S. economy added more jobs in March than had been expected. And yet, it all may not...