Nicholas Phillips has been senior editor at St. Louis Magazine since 2019. He's now part of SLM's Economic Mobility Lab, which explores how folks ladder up in terms of employment, housing, savings, and investments—and what blocks them from doing so.
Social Security benefits are increasing, but some seniors still struggle. But according to advocates, the COLA falls short, and Social Security benefits continue to lose buying power. Here's what to know about the COLA and why it may not be…
More than $22 of a typical New York City apartment's roughly $118 monthly electric bill goes toward city taxes. Consolidated Edison's (Con Ed's) property tax bill for its New York City electricity infrastructure more than doubled between 2015 and 2025, climbing from $1 billion in…
Housing costs are the top issue plaguing both prospective home buyers and renters, according to Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS). Despite the increase in starts, the State of the Nation’s Housing 2024 report from the JCHS suggests the…
For years, New York City residential buyers willing to pay a premium for flexibility gravitated toward condominiums. Co-operatives — with lower purchase prices but more restrictive boards — were often viewed as a compromise. That calculus is changing. The cost of newly…
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A woman in New York City couldn't figure out why none of her cost-saving measures were working until she discovered she'd been paying her neighbor's electricity bill for the past decade. The Queens resident said she was "outraged, but also…
Imagine trying to shrink your electric bill for 10 years, only to learn you were paying for someone else's power the whole time. That's what happened to Nicole Niceforo, a renter in the New York City borough of Queens. She told…
An NYC woman who’d been cutting corners for years due to her wildly high electric bill finally figured out the reason the pesky bill kept increasing… Queens resident Nicole Niceforo claims she practically bent over backward trying to keep her…
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