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Gov. Gavin Newsom delivers his annual State of the State address in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, March 8, 2022.

California's new budget covers $32 billion deficit without touching reserves

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislative leaders have reached an agreement on how to spend the state's tax dollars over the next year.

Sharon Gwinn holds a picture of her husband, who had Lewy body dementia toward the end of his life. Reckless financial behavior was one of the first signs of the disease. "It's what attacked his brain first," Gwinn says.

A loved one's dementia will break your heart. Don't let it wreck your finances

Families can get blindsided by risky behavior with money, sometimes even before a diagnosis. Having tough conversations and setting up guardrails in advance can help prevent disaster.

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during the opening bell in New York City on Jan. 18, 2023. Survey after survey shows economists and CEOs expect a recession, but there's no certainty of what an economic contraction would look like – or if the U.S. economy will suffer one at all.

A recession might be coming. Here's what it could look like

From a mild recession to a so-called hard landing, we sift through the wild array of recession predictions.

In this Oct. 24, 2012 file photo, a pedestrian walks in Greektown in downtown Detroit. A state-appointed review team Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 determined Detroit is in a financial emergency, paving the way for Republican Gov. Rick Snyder to appoint an emergency manager who would need to come up with a new plan to get the city out of its fiscal crisis.

10 years ago Detroit filed for bankruptcy. It makes a comeback but there are hurdles

The "Motor City" has made significant progress since it became the largest municipality to file for bankruptcy a decade ago but still faces potholes in its recovery.

A new study finds a gap in excess deaths opened between Republicans and Democrats in 2021, after vaccine access was widened to all adults. Here, a Walgreens worker prepares vaccine shots for school staff in Dayton, Ohio, in February 2021.

Republicans' excess death rate spiked after COVID-19 vaccines arrived, a study says

After vaccines became widely available in 2021, "the excess death rate among Republican voters was 43% higher than the excess death rate among Democratic voters," Yale researchers say.

In this undated file photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, caribou from the Porcupine caribou herd migrate onto the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska.

Biden ends drilling in ANWR, sparking criticism, as Willow Project moves forward

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is home to dozens of species — and to an ongoing political fight over oil and gas. Now, the Biden administration is hoping ending oil and gas leases will be a win.

Stacks of $100 bills in this undated photo.

Ways to help children with financial literacy

KPBS Midday Edition spoke to Gregg Murset, a certified financial planner, about how to help kids practice saving, investing and spending.

A call for employment sign is displayed at a Taco Bell in Austin, Texas, on March 10, 2023.

The job market is cooling as higher interest rates and a slowing economy take a toll

U.S. employers added 236,000 jobs in March as hiring slowed from the previous month. Unemployment dipped to 3.5%, from 3.6% in February.

Erica Payne, founder of Patriotic Millionaires, offers a crash course on economic inequality to residents of Whiteville, N.C. The group wants working-class voters to lobby Congress on raising the minimum wage and taxing the rich.

These millionaires want to tax the rich, and they're lobbying working-class voters

A group called Patriotic Millionaires has failed to get Congress to raise their taxes or boost the minimum wage. Now they're taking their concerns about inequality to swing-state voters.

A woman holding her daughter looks at a view of Seoul in 2019. The fertility rate in South Korea, which has the world's lowest rate, hit 0.78 in February.

South Korea has the world's lowest fertility rate, a struggle with lessons for us all

South Korea's government has moved aggressively to encourage more childbirth, but its ongoing struggles point to the complexity of a challenge that is only becoming more salient around the world.

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