The best way to fix Americans’ cost-of-living problem is to give workers bigger raises, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week.

As President Trump mocks the term "affordability," a new poll found Americans are making major sacrifices to keep up with the ...

Health care analysts predict hospitals and other providers will raise prices to cover the double whammy of lost Medicaid ...

Commentators are calling it an affordability crisis. Politicians insist they have the cure. Yet the debate suffers from a ...

Affordability is set to improve in 2026 forecast, as home prices flatten and incomes rise, easing the lock-in effect.

The president continues to brush off an issue that he said he would solve in his first months in office. Some Democrats say ...

The people of New Hampshire are facing unprecedented economic challenges – no one has been spared from rising grocery bills, ...

When someone tells you that they are struggling, it is generally a good rule of thumb to take them seriously. So it was not ...

To understand what just happened in this week’s elections—notably Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York City, Mikie Sherrill’s win in New Jersey, and Abigail Spanberger’s win in Virginia—wind back the ...

In 2025, the cost of living in the New York metro area rose by about 4 percent, with rent up 4.7 percent and child care and school-related costs up nearly 6 percent, well above the national average.

Last April, seniors who lived in rent-restricted units at the Sierra Ridge apartment complex in Clovis, California, were told that their rents would double by January 2022. Rent for a one-bedroom ...