For Kasey McBlais, a 42-year-old single mom who lives in Maine with her two elementary school-aged children, the cost of running a household is only getting more expensive, from buying groceries to ...

Measuring inflation without government data is difficult right now, but there other indicators of where prices are and where ...

Consumer price growth rose in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday. It's the latest indication that the U.S. economy continues to contend with inflation even as the job market ...

The inflation rate is not zero; it’s currently at 2.9% year over year. That’s higher than the Fed’s 2% "price stability" target. The inflation rate also has been rising for the past four months. See ...

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter who has covered the pandemic-era economy in hundreds of stories over the past two years. He's written hundreds of stories breaking down ...