inflation

WASHINGTON — Democrats will push ahead on restraining pharmaceutical prices and extending health insurance subsidies for millions of Americans, Senate...

ALBANY — Property tax levy growth will again be capped at 2% for 2023 for municipal governments starting their budget years on Jan. 1, the Office of t...

President Joe Biden is set to “forgive” $10,000 worth of student loan debt per borrower, for a total of $360 billion in loan elimination. This may sou...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has finally admitted how badly she underestimated the inflationary threat last year. Although President Joe Biden hims...

Inflation is likely to be the most powerful issue working for Republicans in this year’s congressional elections. Public concern over it has been risi...

Area sales tax revenues were a mixed bag in March, but the first quarter turned in double-digit increases compared to 2021. The Office of the State Co...

U.S. gross domestic product shrank 1.4% in the first quarter at the same time inflation continued to soar. For older Americans, that combination conju...

How out of control is inflation? One measure says it all: Prices are now rising as fast in one month as they used to rise in a whole year when Preside...

A deadly epidemic has struck birds across the United States and, while it’s no COVID-19, the consequences are far-reaching. Avian influenza, often cal...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — Social Security recipients are on track for another big cost-of-living increase in 2023. The latest estimate for the bump is 8.9%. Th...

The government says inflation rose 8.5% in March compared to last year — the the worst it has been in 40 years, since the bad old days of 1981. While ...

COLONIE (TNS) — The war in Ukraine will likely hit Americans in the pocketbook for a long time to come, and people are consequently planning to cut ba...

Joe Biden is engaged in the most extensive test of whether an American president can survive elevated levels of inflation since Jimmy Carter, and it’s...

While much of the political world focused on the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, across town in Washington on Mo...

With U.S. inflation standing at a 40-year high of 7.9%, the Federal Reserve has finally begun to tighten monetary policy, with a small initial increas...

The price for gasoline in Olean jumped another 20 cents Monday to nearly $4.40 per gallon for 87 octane, while the statewide average rose nearly 47 ce...

WASHINGTON — Addressing a concerned nation and anxious world, President Joe Biden vowed in his first State of the Union address Tuesday night to check...

The failures of President Joe Biden’s first year in office are obvious to all. Inflation is raging. COVID is raging. Crime is spiking in some big citi...