Especially these days -- when jobs don't feel all that secure and inflation continues to raise the cost of living -- every little bit of extra cash a person can get hold of can certainly be put to good use. This reality makes companies that not only pay dividends but also increase them incredibly attractive for those of us who want to keep cash coming in even as our costs keep going up.

Dividends are never guaranteed payments, so finding companies that can reliably boost cash flows is often easier said than done. Still, they're worth searching for, so three Motley Fool contributors went looking for businesses that appear to have what it takes to hand their shareholders more cold, hard cash.

They picked Target (NYSE: TGT), Realty Income (NYSE: O), and Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI). Read on to find out why and decide for yourself whether one or more of them may deserve a bit of your hard-earned cash.

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