Image source: The Motley Fool. The SSA uses the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) to ...

After a long drought of government economic releases, we finally got a key update last week: the Consumer Price Index (CPI) ...

The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for 2026 will not be a windfall for the millions of beneficiaries who rely on ...

The Ministry said the proposed changes in the methodology are being done with the objective of making the housing index more ...

Halloween costumes and displays have been in stores since summer, giving families more time to shop and more pressure to ...

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

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

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India’s massive free foodgrain scheme has eased the cost of living for more than half of all households, but it also raises a tricky question: Should the consumer price index be revised accordingly?

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced a widely anticipated 25-basis-point (bp) rate cut, bringing the federal funds ...

The ongoing government shutdown isn’t just the longest in American history. It’s likely the most damaging, too.

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