Tucked away in Northern California’s Siskiyou County, Yreka stands as living proof that affordable California living isn’t just a nostalgic memory from the 1970s. While coastal Californians debate ...

While an uptick in inflation is unsettling, the recent news from the labor market is “downright alarming,” they said.

The COLA boost is slightly better than earlier estimates, even if we're not talking about a lot of money. But many retirees ...

Murrysville is the second (and last) Pennsylvania town to appear in the 50 best towns for middle-class retirement, and it ...

Wilton Manors, Florida, is the best place in America to retire without a car. The suburb’s annual cost of living is $73,020, ...

The higher the Social Security benefit, the more money that you can collect every year when the COLA is announced.

The headline statistics we currently employ to understand America’s economy are profoundly misleading and, unfortunately, drive policy.

While there aren’t any statewide candidates on Tuesday’s ballot, there are local races and referendums of interest to voters ...

As seniors face rising prices for shelter and medical services, their annual benefit boosts aren't keeping up.

In early October of every year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its much-anticipated report on changes (usually increases) to the Consumer Price Index ...

One of the recent suggestions is from the Center for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), a nonpartisan policy analysis and research group. It has proposed that the cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, ...

Data annually collected by the Kansas State University Economics Club shows the average student cost of living is nearly 25% higher than that of the average American.