Tag: Inflation

WATCH LIVE: Biden delivers remarks on economy and inflation

Cami Mondeaux · January 12, 2023 2:16 pm

A shopper peruses cheese offerings at a Target store Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023.

Inflation drops to 6.5% in December as price pressures ease

Zach Halaschak · January 12, 2023 1:32 pm

Economic ‘soft landing’ looking likelier as inflation eases and employment grows

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

Economic ‘soft landing’ looking likelier as inflation eases and employment grows

Zach Halaschak · January 12, 2023 1:11 pm

Home sale signs are posted along Topanga Canyon road in Los Angeles, on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes in September fell for the fourth month in a row, grinding to their slowest pace in more than a decade as prospective homebuyers grapple with surging mortgage rates and a near historic-low level of properties on the market.

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Congress can immediately combat the effects of inflation. Here’s how

Wil Armstrong · January 12, 2023 11:08 am

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

Happy New Year: 2023 is going to be worse

Vance Ginn · January 12, 2023 8:07 am

FILE - This April 3, 2019, file photo shows a tip box filled with U.S. currency in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Social Security update: 21 days until direct SSI payment worth $914 arrives

Asher Notheis · January 11, 2023 4:19 pm

Discussions on the future of Social Security have occurred in Congress for years, and experts have warned that the program could be insolvent in 10 years if nothing is done.

Social Security update: Direct monthly payment worth up to $4,194 arriving today

Asher Notheis · January 11, 2023 3:24 pm

FILE - This Oct. 24, 2016, file photo shows dollar bills in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Social Security update: How to check how much of an increase your benefits will get this year

Asher Notheis · January 10, 2023 6:08 pm

FILE - In this June 15, 2018, file photo, cash is fanned out from a wallet in North Andover, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Social Security update: Direct SSI payment worth $914 to arrive in 22 days

Asher Notheis · January 10, 2023 4:05 pm

FILE - This Jan. 22, 2020, file photo shows the likeness of Benjamin Franklin on $100 bills in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Social Security update: Direct SSI payment worth $914 to arrive in 23 days

Asher Notheis · January 9, 2023 7:21 pm

FILE - This April 3, 2019, file photo shows a tip box filled with U.S. currency in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Social Security update: Direct monthly payment worth up to $4,194 arriving in two days

Asher Notheis · January 9, 2023 5:10 pm

This photo taken July 23, 2013, show the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Congress returns to work this week with a relatively short and simple agenda, vote to keep the government operating in the short term, then return home to campaign. National security threats from Islamic State militants and Russian aggression in Ukraine loom large, but September's session may be too short for lawmakers to do anything but talk about them.

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

Address inflation and protect Social Security, public demands of new Congress: Poll

Conrad Hoyt · January 9, 2023 1:23 am