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STORY ANGLES - Focus on personal conflict: Stories often center on interpersonal tensions, particularly within families or relationships, tied to money or lifestyle.
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 15
- Latest publication
- Sep 16, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Slate
- Top 50K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 22, 2026
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I Happily Paid All of My Girlfriend’s Housing and Travel Costs for Two Years. Then I Learned Something Outrageous. (opens the original)
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Pay Dirt is Slate’s money advice column. Have a question? Send it to Kristin and Ilyce here. (It’s anonymous!) My girlfriend, “Lara,” and I have been together for three years and living together for two. She earns a modest wage in an admin job, and I make roughly triple her salary. We live in a condo that I bought before we met. As I make so much more than Lara and was comfortably paying for everything myself before she moved in, we agreed that I would continue paying all the housing expenses, a
I Have a Lifelong Dream for My Apartment. Fulfilling It Could Have Major Consequences for My Family. (opens the original)
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Pay Dirt is Slate’s money advice column. Have a question? Send it to Kristin and Ilyce here. (It’s anonymous!) After years of designs and approvals, my wife and I are finally cleared to build out roof access and a roof deck on top of our small urban apartment. This has been a dream of mine since I saw a similar apartment for sale 20 years ago, and it’s the sole reason that I bought this one eight years ago. The bids so far indicate that it will cost about $525,000. But I can’t decide if now is t
My Salary Barely Covers Childcare. I Found the Perfect Solution, But Someone Is Standing in My Way. (opens the original)
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Pay Dirt is Slate’s money advice column. Have a question? Send it to Kristin and Ilyce here. (It’s anonymous!) My husband lost his job a year-and-a-half ago (he was in a lucrative but volatile industry) while I was staying home with our son, then 15 months. Unfortunately, the next month I learned I was unexpectedly pregnant. I went back to work on a contract basis for a short time before my pregnancy became high risk. It took nine months before my husband could even find something that qualifies
I Thought My Boyfriend and I Both Lived the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Lifestyle. Then I Caught a Glimpse of His Banking App. (opens the original)
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Pay Dirt is Slate’s money advice column. Have a question? Send it to Kristin and Ilyce here. (It’s anonymous!) My boyfriend and I are both 32. We’ve been together for three years and lived together for two. We both work in the service industry and have separate bank accounts. We each pay our half of the rent, and we’ve divvied up the other bills so they’re even between us. We take turns on groceries and going out. We make about the same and are both pretty chill about it all working out in the e
I’m So Sick of Hearing the Same Old Complaint From People About Their Savings. They Have No Idea! (opens the original)
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Pay Dirt is Slate’s money advice column. Have a question? Send it to Kristin and Ilyce here. (It’s anonymous!) I read your column all the time, and there are always people asking whether they’ve saved enough for retirement or for emergency funds. Then, they tell you the amounts saved, and I am flabbergasted because I am not even close to the amounts they’ve saved and are worried about! I am just over 50, and through a series of life circumstances, failure to advocate for myself during most of my
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