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

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

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

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

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

President Donald Trump’s high-profile economic speech on Tuesday night was meant to alleviate Americans’ concerns about the cost of living. Instead, it mainly appeared to deepen fears within the GOP ...

President Trump will hold a rally in Pennsylvania Tuesday, where he's expected to talk about his administration's efforts to address two major concerns for voters: the economy and affordability.

President Donald Trump used a charged stop in Pennsylvania to turn voter anxiety over prices into a political weapon, ...

More Americans — and their finances — are feeling the crunch of a growing affordability crisis. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has found food prices to have risen by 18.2% since January 2022, ...

There's more good news on the homebuying front. Housing affordability is now the best it's been in more than two and a half years, according to the October 2025 ICE Mortgage Monitor report. "With ...

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 ...