Paychecks go further in one Phoenix suburb than any U.S. city

Across much of the United States, just scraping by is becoming increasingly harder.

For years, wage growth has been slow to keep up with inflation . On top of that, President Donald Trump is diminishing trust in the economic system with his tariff regime and by firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner because he didn’t like the job numbers. In a recent poll, just 37% of Americans approved of the president’s handling of the economy — a figure that tends to be a better indication of how people feel about their own economic situation.

But in some cities, your money will take you further than in others , according to a recent analysis of America’s 100 largest cities by the personal finance site GOBankingRates. It used median household income and cost of living as the ke