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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Interest in shared e-bikes and e-scooters, or "micromobility" devices, has skyrocketed in Australia. Every capital city and over 25 local councils have trialed shared e-scooter systems through private operators including Lime, Beam and Neuron.…

In Australia, 76% of people agreed that the incomes of those on the lowest incomes are too low and should be increased. Credit: https://povertyandinequality.acoss.org.au/community-attitudes-towards-poverty-and-inequality/ Three in four people in Australia support an income boost for people on the lowest incomes, while less than a quarter think it's possible to live on the current JobSeeker rate, new research by ACOSS and UNSW…

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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Millennial age groups—born mid 1980s to early 2000s—now have more money at hand than they have ever controlled before. And they are spending it, says Olivia Johnson, assistant professor in the Department of Human Development and Consumer Sciences at the University of Houston College of Technology. …

Yearly earnings and disposable income by age, for men and women across time. Both earnings and disposable income increase greatly with increasing age and over time, consistent with the strong GDP per capita growth over the period (except during a recession in the early 1990s). This income growth is much stronger for women than for men. The measure of accumulated income is the life-course movement of a member of a cohort across the diagonals. Credit:…

We can clearly see how big of a toll heat takes on health and employment around the world, thanks to a comprehensive new climate report from The Lancet medical journal. More people are dying during brutal heat spells. Scorching temperatures are also causing people to lose work.As our planet runs a fever, hotter summers raise the risk of heat illness and chip away at people’s livelihoods. Some groups of people are more vulnerable because of their age, employment, and housing, as well as a legacy of discriminatory policies…

U.S. shoppers are contending with higher prices as the consumer-price index rose 8.3% in August from a year earlier. Photo: SARAH SILBIGER/REUTERS…

Homebuyers in metro Denver are getting stretched by high home prices and rising interest rates, but the situation isn’t as bad for renters in market-rate and professionally managed apartment buildings, the kind that dominates in places like central Denver, the Denver Tech Center and Boulder. Renters in those units, which make up under half the total apartments out there, are paying on average 21.8% of their household incomes in metro Denver toward the rent, according to a new affordability study from RealPage. That is…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The cost of eggs and bread is soaring—a trend that's particularly punishing for the poorest Americans. Average food prices climbed an annualized rate…