Cost of living

The program will help state and tribal governments purchase locally produced food for nutritional assistance programs like food banks and school cafeterias.

Beset by economic instability since 9/11 and the Great Recession, many millennials feel pressured and anxious about their prospects.

But inflation will eat into the raise.

A Springdale, Arkansas, family's search for an affordable home spotlights an increasingly expensive rental and housing market.

Social Security provides cost of living updates. But for those with additional money to invest, inflation can eat into more conservative investments like cash and bonds.

Typically, unionized companies are the ones that directly tie cost-of-living increases to inflation. And union membership has been falling.

A listener writes: "If you make the minimum wage $15/hour, it’s not enough in New York and it’s way too much in Peoria. Would it be possible to tie the minimum wage to the cost of living?"

As employees stay remote and can move anywhere to work, some companies are reconsidering the math that goes into compensation packages.

The reasons for relocation include the lower cost of living, bigger houses for less money and more conservative politics.

Millions of people's incomes have been reduced or disappeared completely because of COVID-19, and rent day is just around the corner.