CostOfLiving

Why the basics keep costing more than wages grow, and who pockets the difference.

Five Thousand Dollars for Your Vote? Five People Answer.

"I think it should be either way" — an unemployed woman's verdict on Trump's $5,000 check, standing in front of a store that won't hire her.

He named the price of our vote: Five thousand dollars, once.

The case for building something new in the age of concentrated power, told to the person who's heard every pitch before: you.