The website Retirement Living ranked the best cities in California for retirees to live in. Here are the spots that made the ...

At this point, many Social Security recipients are eager to know what 2026's COLA will amount to. In 2025, benefits got a 2.5 ...

At $16, California’s minimum wage is nearly $9 higher than the federal minimum wage of $7.25.. However, according to the MIT ...

Social Security's 2026 cost-of-living adjustment may be 2.5%, a new estimate shows. But COLA could still get a boost if ...

But what would make the 2026 cost-of-living adjustment special is that it would mark the fifth consecutive year of at least a ...

Democratic and GOP hopefuls lamented California's affordability crisis but diverged on solutions during the first bipartisan panel in the 2026 governor's race.

The cost of living crisis in California has made several counties so expensive that median income falls below the low-income threshold. In these parts of California, making under $100,000 means ...

According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of people living in poverty in the U.S. decreased for the fifth consecutive year. Roughly 37 million people, or 11.4 percent of the total ...

MIT sets the living wage for an adult with one child in California as $99,763 before taxes compared to $73,609 in Texas. On average, Texas has more expensive medical care than California.

However, according to the MIT living wage calculator, a single adult with no children would need to earn almost double that amount — $28.72 an hour — to afford basic necessities in California.