There are a lot of reasons people take on roommates, but one of the most common is simple economics: Rent keeps rising, half of all tenants in the U.S. are paying more rent than they can actually ...

The cost of rental housing is near a record high, usually a household's largest monthly expense. So some people have begun paying their recent with a rewards credit card. The Wall Street Journal ...

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter who has covered the pandemic-era economy in hundreds of stories over the past two years. He's written hundreds of stories breaking down ...