affordability

Curbing healthcare costs could be a start, says Marc Goldwein from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

Any legislative solution would need the support of Republicans to overcome a likely veto.

Cynthia Cummins, founder of Kindred SF Homes, discusses the San Francisco real estate market.

The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index hit a 12-year low in September. This month, it inched up.

A new report from the Urban Institute found that one in five working-age renters struggled to pay rent last year. The share of middle-income renters that are facing these challenges grew by the biggest margin.

Diesel now exceeds $6 per gallon. And much of what you buy at the supermarket probably got there on a diesel-fueled truck.

The least affordable metro areas in the country for working families with kids are Los Angeles and New York City, where the median cost of childcare plus the notoriously high cost of housing devour 95% or more of the median income.

Learning she was pregnant with twins forced Sarah Burger to confront hard truths about her family’s budget.

The behemoth from Bentonville recently announced new price rollbacks.

A new report from the Urban Institute suggests some consumers may be headed for a cliff.