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

SC Garg, the secretary of ministry of statistics and programme implementation, made a significant announcement during a recent interview in a daily newspaper. He said that the Government was ready to ...

The report shows food items like instant coffee and beef are getting pricier. Instant coffee prices in September were about ...

The Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for Social Security benefits is set to increase by 2.8% in January 2026. However, ...

A new analysis reveals that long-standing policy choices in benefit calculation have cost retirees thousands, raising urgent ...

It depends on what metric you use. The most basic overall measure of inflation is steady, or even up a little bit, depending on the time frame. But an inflation measure that excludes volatile food and ...

Household living-costs price indexes review: 2024 outlines changes made as a result of the review of the household living-costs price indexes ...

Two-thirds of Americans say they plan to hand out candy this Halloween. Two-thirds of Americans say they plan to hand out ...

Social Security's annual COLA calculations are under scrutiny from advocacy groups, with some calling for different metrics ...

Economists think inflation around the U.S. continued to climb in September, edging farther away from the Fed's 2% annual target.

A coalition of Democratic senators announced plans to introduce legislation aimed at providing additional financial support for older Americans and veterans struggling with inflati ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) created the Space Environment Health Index to track the health of Earth's orbit, assaulted by ...