Americans across the economic spectrum feel a ‘panic’ about finances, author says

President George Washington is displayed on a U.S. $1 bill. LM Otero/AP

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How much money would it take for you to feel financially secure? Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mona Chalabi spent five years following 10 Americans, from those living paycheck to paycheck to those earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, in an effort to answer that question. Her new book, Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are, explores why