How It Started ... How It's Going: Inflation-adjusted hourly wages lower today than when Biden took office

Average hourly earnings of all employees have increased 15.9% over the same period. Inflation creates severe financial pressures for most U.S. households, especially low-income Americans ... Read More

There was little relief from inflation in March

If you drove a car and paid rent last month, you felt the worst effects of inflation ... Mark Huffman has been a consumer news reporter for ConsumerAffairs since 2004. He covers real estate ... Read More

Inflation's rising. Here's how debt relief can help.

Just don't let your debt stagnate and instead use this week's inflation news as motivation to restore your personal financial health. Read More

TLT Investors Have Been Hit Hard by Inflation Jumps. What’s Next?

Quickly, however, investors began to realize that the path for inflation wouldn’t be a straight line down. Consumer prices rose faster than expected in January, February and March. Read More

Inflation came in hotter than expected in March

US inflation is hot again. A Wednesday news release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics said the consumer price index ... still battling inflation." Average hourly earnings increased 4.1% year ... Read More

Inflation ticked higher in February as consumer spending soared

The slight February increase in inflation was in line with economist forecasts, but a 0.8 percent jump in consumer spending last month far ... the Fed isn’t going to wait for inflation to actually hit ... Read More

These NYC workers will now make nearly $20 an hour

Adams, who made the announcement with Department of Consumer and ... based on the law, workers will earn at least $19.96 per hour with an adjustment for inflation. Since DCWP began enforcing ... Read More

Consumer sentiment climbs to 2½-year high as inflation eases

as Americans expressed more confidence that inflation would ease and reduce the financial strain on households. The second of two readings of the consumer-sentiment survey climbed to 79.4 from an ... Read More

Should you invest in gold before the next inflation report?

So timing is important, as many gold investors can attest after investing in the precious metal hit an 11-year ... to have at any time but especially if this week's inflation report is weaker ... Read More

Consumer inflation stayed high in March

WASHINGTON -- Consumer inflation remained persistently high last ... Steve Matthews of Bloomberg News (WPNS) and Rachel Siegel of The Washington Post. Sports ... Read More

How It Started ... How It's Going: Inflation-adjusted hourly wages lower today than when Biden took office

Those strong numbers have continued a trend of robust jobs and wage growth, even if the average hourly pay for Americans has not kept up with the growth in consumer prices. READ ON THE FOX ... Read More