They’re not buying this “no buy” advice. A slew of TikTok influencers are sharing their best money-saving methods for the New Year — but critics say cutting back on indulgences won’t make you a millionaire. Rach, a content creator who shares videos about her “frugal” lifestyle, went viral this week with her advice on “how … Read more
Talk about bad blood. Health experts are sounding the alarm over a disturbing trend where drug users swap blood to score a secondhand high. Called “bluetoothing,” the gruesome movement is fueling a wave of new HIV infections in hotspots around the globe, including Fiji and South Africa. Health experts are sounding the alarm over a … Read more
Consider Dave Portnoy unimpressed. As the Yankees celebrated their wild-card series win over the Red Sox with a boozy clubhouse party Thursday night, the Barstool Sports bigwig and noted Boston sports fan wasn’t holding back his feelings. “Yankees celebrating wild card with champagne,” he wrote on X. “Poverty franchise.” There was plenty of party to … Read more
Is he a slumdog millionaire? An Australian influencer has been accused of engaging in “poverty tourism” after filming himself “surviving” in an Indian slum, as seen in a viral Instagram video. “I Tried Surviving India’s ‘Deadliest Slum,’” the content creator, known as Pete Z, captioned the controversial clip. The neighborhood in question is Dharavi in … Read more
More money, more kindness? A team of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that the upper class is considered kinder and more helpful than those less fortunate — and for a specific reason. Experts from the Netherlands, China and Germany analyzed data from more than 2 million people of all different age groups … Read more
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Susan Powter lost her multimillion-dollar fitness empire when her finances were mismanaged. The ’90s fitness guru said she turned to delivering food for GrubHub and Uber Eats to make ends meet. “I’ve known desperation,” Powter told People magazine. “Desperation is walking back from the welfare office. It’s the shock of, ‘From there, now I’m here? … Read more
This brings new meaning to “airstrip.” A stripping flight attendant might seem like an OnlyFans fantasy. However, that’s not the case for some air hostesses, who’ve turned to removing their clothes for cash and other desperate measures to make ends meet when not working the financially unfriendly skies. “I am definitely not a girl that … Read more
It turns out that wealth may not buy good health. A new, large study out of Finland suggests that people with good jobs have a greater genetic risk for cancer, especially breast and prostate cancers. These findings challenge the long-held belief that people struggling with poverty are more likely to have higher rates of cancer. … Read more
Whoopi Goldberg grew up poor in the New York projects of Chelsea with her mother, Emma Johnson, and big brother, Clyde. But as the Oscar winner writes in her memoir, “Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me,” she never considered their circumstances as reduced. Her mother, who worked as a nurse, managed to … Read more
You may have been told you have a poker face — but might you have a money face? A new study from the University of Glasgow surveyed people about what makes someone look rich, according to snap superficial judgements. The study, carried out with white participants from Western cultures, determined what facial features were associated … Read more
Stephanie Land chronicled her struggles as a single mother scrubbing toilets for minimal pay in “Maid,” her bestselling memoir from 2019 that was adapted into a hit Netflix series starring Margaret Qualley. At the end of that book, Land took her 3-year-old daughter, Emilia, and moved away from an abusive partner in Washington State to … Read more
North Korea, the highly isolated, totalitarian Asian nation, is home to certain unusual superlatives — but, for many inside its borders, living in luxury is far from them. And what reality holds in store for Travis King — the 23-year-old US soldier who defected to North Korea on Tuesday by running across the border while … Read more
Closing the wealth gap is a matter of life and death. Poverty is the nation’s fourth leading cause of death, killing an estimated 183,000 Americans aged 15 and up in 2019, according to new findings published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Monday. “Poverty kills as much as dementia, accidents, stroke, Alzheimer’s, … Read more
British actress Daisy May Cooper stars in “Rain Dogs,” a dark comedy about an unconventional family premiering March 6 on HBO (10 p.m., and also available on HBO Max). The series, created by author Cash Carraway, is set in England and follows struggling and impoverished single mother Costello Jones (Cooper), her daughter Iris (Fleur Tashjian) … Read more
One person’s trash is another person’s holiday treasure. A poverty-stricken mom says she’s resorted to “dumpster diving” to procure Christmas presents for her young son — and has already found $240 worth of great gifts. Rachael Collins, 42, trawls through trash twice a week, honing in on garbage cans located outside of department stores, in … Read more
Her life took a twist. A poverty-stricken pretzel store employee says she’s raking in a whopping $99,000 a month after quitting her low-wage job to join OnlyFans. Meagan Starke, 31, claims she was pulling 60 hours a week at the pretzel shop, but was still struggling to feed her son, 12, and daughter, 11. “I … Read more