Recently, progress on inflation appeared to be stuck or, at worst, reversing: A closely watched gauge of underlying price hikes — an index that excludes highly volatile categories — hadn’t budged for ...

The average senior who retired in 1999 has lost nearly $5,000 in Social Security payments as a result of the CPI-W.

Will investors be able to trust the U.S. government's unemployment numbers? Investor concerns about manipulation of the consumer-price index may be exaggerated. Such concerns have grown since ...

The ongoing government shutdown is delaying the announcement of the annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for tens ...