After a delay due to the government shutdown that began on Oct. 1, Social Security announced its most anticipated change of ...

If you’ve been paying even passing attention to inflation—and it has been hard to ignore—you know that the latest inflation readings have been ugly. Through August 2022, the Consumer Price Index ...

A retiree using the 4% rule to guide withdrawals would have taken out $60,000 from a $1.5 million portfolio in the year 2000. By 2020, that withdrawal amount would have been right around $100,000. The ...

Supply-chain disruptions, pandemic unpredictability, and war have sent inflation to levels not seen since the early 1980s. Higher prices for essentials like food, housing, and gas are making life more ...

Policymakers cling to a 1970s consumer-price index formula that overstates cost increases and drives up automatic spending.

Economists largely expect persistent retail inflation in September, increasing at the same pace as the month before. Headline CPI in September is seen rising 0.4% M/M, same as the prior month. On a ...

“Seniors, and The Senior Citizens League, call on Congress to take immediate action to strengthen COLAs to ensure Americans can retire with dignity, such as instituting a minimum COLA of 3 percent and ...

User-Created Clip July 5, 2013 2012-02-10T09:20:51-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/1f1/20120210092141001.jpgBarry Bosworth and Michael Horrigan talks about how ...

The upcoming release of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is an important opportunity to address the social justice challenges created by surging inflation. There is no typical U.S. consumer, yet the ...

The report shows food items like instant coffee and beef are getting pricier. Instant coffee prices in September were about ...