Tag: affordable

High prices persist – making life less affordable – and further increases are on the horizon This year’s elections confirmed the hollowness of arguing that low inflation means that Americans are doing fine. Consumers don’t care about inflation; they care about high prices, and they see high prices when they go to the grocery store,…
One in four 20-somethings in the Boston metropolitan area said in a recent survey that they are planning to quit urban life. Their biggest reason: high housing costs. South Carolina, on the other hand, is booming. It inched past Florida last year as the fastest-growing state. Unassuming Delaware is also growing rapidly. And it is…