Social Security beneficiaries can expect a 3.2% cost-of-living increase next year. It's a smaller increase than the 8.7% bump recipients got this year, which was the largest in decades.

But it’s not quite time to think about how much our turkey and pumpkin pie has gone up in price this year, so let’s cover exactly what’s happened with the cost of living in 2023, how it’s ...

Cost of Living Trends for 2025. The consumer price index and the Social Security Administration’s cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) represent two significant indicators of fluctuations in the ...

States with a higher cost of living rank lower. The cost of living metric is one of many that factor into the overall Best States rankings . See the Best States methodology for a detailed look at ...

More than half a million people left New York City in 2022, 23% of them citing the high cost of living as one of the reasons they chose to move. Outgoing New Yorkers flocked to states like Florida ...

Inflation and the cost of living are not one and the same. Although inflation does have a hand in determining the cost of living, low levels of inflation do not always mean lower costs of living ...

Cost of living calculators can be helpful in determining how far your salary will go if you move. Everyone from consumers to economists to politicians is talking about the cost of living.

Report warns the cost-of-living crisis may overshadow climate change. By Kelvin Chan, Associated Press. Gas prices have dropped but still strain some drivers.

Learn about the relationship between the cost of living, the Consumer Price Index, inflation, and Americans’ household incomes—is wage growth strong enough?