Americans Doing Better Financially, Except for Non-College Educated

A federal Reserve survey says the financial health of American households overall has improved modestly in recent years 

                             By Harriet Torry 

WASHINGTON---Americans' sense of their overall financial health improved modestly last year, but adults without any college education lost ground for the first time since 2013, according to a new Federal Reserve survey. 

Some 70% of respondents polled in October 2016 said they were either "living comfortably" or "doing okay," up from 69% the year before and 62% when the question was first posed in 2013, the Fed found in its latest...