Elijah returned to Financial Planning in 2025 after working as a summer intern with FP in 2023. He earned an undergraduate degree from Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, and a master's degree in data journalism from Northeastern University in Boston. His work has been published in Bloomberg News, The Boston Globe, The Texas Tribune, WCVB, WBUR, The Drive and Autoblog.
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Even after accounting for income, Black Americans still trail in retirement savings, according to a recent EBRI study.
July 9 -
A provision in Trump's tax and budget law gives seniors 65 and older a new deduction that offsets Social Security taxes for most retirees. While it helps many keep more money, it also accelerates the program's insolvency.
July 8 -
As college costs rise, parents are resorting to increasingly costly means to pay for their children's educations. The loss in retirement savings is rarely recovered.
July 1 -
Despite health savings accounts being highly tax-advantaged, most savers do not fully utilize their unique benefits, new data from the Employee Benefit Research Institute shows.
June 20 -
A TIAA Institute survey found that the average U.S. adult cannot answer a majority of retirement-related questions.
June 5 -
Retiree income in the U.S. lags far behind the national median for household earnings, but these top cities are bucking the trend, according to a new SmartAsset study.
May 28 -
A new Morningstar study found that long-term care costs can dramatically impact retirement plans, with 41% of households projected to run out of money when such expenses are incurred.
May 19 -
A new study from the Center for Retirement Research found that older remote workers are working longer than their in-office counterparts.
May 15 -
Novel legal theories and a lower bar for plaintiffs could unleash an explosion in ERISA-based lawsuits against 401(k) plan providers.
April 29 -
Finfluencers — "financial influencers" — get a bad rap, but there's no arguing that they're changing how younger generations learn about personal finance.
April 10
