Ginn and Hern: A credit.com poll shows nearly one in four 18 to 24-year-olds defined the American Dream as being debt-free; they were least likely to classify it as joining the top one percent or retiring financially secure at 65.
Economy
Don’t Fence Me In: Lianne’s Story
Family, then finances—and opportunity. Those are what brought Lianne Halpern back to tiny Shamrock, a small, dusty stop on the famous Route 66 in the Texas panhandle. Like generations of Americans before, Lianne and her family had traveled west along that route in search of the golden promises of California. Lianne’s father worked in the...
January 29, 2026