Inflation ticked up in August in a troubling sign for consumers, but not enough to prevent a Federal Reserve interest rate cut next week as more alarm bells ring in the labor market. Overall inflation ...

Egg prices are not the only thing pressuring household budgets. Something even more essential is creating the latest inflation headache: water. The latest Consumer Price Index report showed the cost ...

Wastewater treatment at a Clark County Water Reclamation District plant in Las Vegas. Nevada leads the seven-state Colorado River Basin in recycling wastewater, with an 85 percent reuse rate. (L.E.

While U.S. inflation has cooled to around 2-3% in mid-2025, it is unlikely to consistently return to the Fed’s target of below 2%. The more realistic outlook is a sustained inflation range of 2.5-3.5% ...

CNBC editor Rick Santelli said Tuesday that tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump apparently were not causing inflation to skyrocket following the release of data on consumer prices. The Consumer ...

Inflation fell two-tenths of a percentage point to 2.1% for the year ending in April, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday in an update to the Federal Reserve’s preferred gauge. That ties ...

Inflation held at 2.7% for the year ending in July in the consumer price index, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday, suggesting that the price pressures from tariffs were not as strong as ...