This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A three-week government shutdown has delayed the annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustment announcement to ...

The ongoing government shutdown has delayed the announcement of the annual Social Security cost-of-living increase WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) — The ongoing government shutdown is delaying the ...

The Social Security Administration's annual announcement setting next year's cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, will be delayed because of the government shutdown, the agency said. Each year, the ...

The Komodo Islands, part of Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara region, showcase a raw and rugged natural landscape. This aerial view reveals volcanic ridges, savannah-covered hills, and coastal waters ...

Persistent worries about the higher cost of living and few job opportunities pushed consumer sentiment down to its seventh-lowest level in October, on records going back to 1952. Consumer sentiment ...

Miriam Belblidia loved her pale pink and blue house in New Orleans' Holy Cross neighborhood. But in 2022, after seven years there, she decided she wanted to be closer to the action, a little farther ...

LEGUNG TIMUR, Indonesia (AP) — In the northeastern tip of Indonesia’s Madura Island, sand blankets front yards and even spills into the interior of homes. Residents of the three coastal communities — ...

A new report by United Ways of California reveals that a family of four needs $116,036 annually to cover the “real cost” of living in San Diego County. Despite the six-figure sum, Pamela Gray Payton ...

Myles Hannan considers himself a happy guy. He likes his job as an EMT for an ambulance company in Alameda County. He loves his fiancée. But with the Bay Area’s notoriously high cost of living, he’s ...

LONDON, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Changes to British consumers' behaviour that emerged at the start of a cost-of-living crisis in 2022, such as more eating at home, have stuck, the boss of Tesco (TSCO.L), ...