The price increases remained milder than feared, keeping the US central bank on track to cut interest rates next week.

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Social Security beneficiaries will get a 2.8 percent increase in their monthly payments next year, the Social Security ...

Nearly two dozen days have passed since a federal agency has published an economic report. The US government’s shutdown has resulted in a blackout of critical data, further clouding an already opaque ...

The latest inflation reading likely caused a collective sigh of relief among economists and consumers alike. According to the data, released today, the July Consumer Price Index rose just 2.7% ...

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'It's going to lead to more and more pinching the budget as the real value fades' Job seekers at a Florida job fair earlier this year. It's a tough labor market and unemployment benefit amounts may ...

We independently evaluate all of our recommendations. If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. With inflation rising to 2.9%, it’s more important than ever to be sure your ...

WASHINGTON >> The Federal Reserve will go into a policy meeting next week with its view of the economy obscured by a U.S. government shutdown that has suspended the release of key data, a ...

When President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, it set off worries that economic data might not be as trustworthy in the future. The president claimed, without citing evidence, ...