Author: Medora Lee, USA TODAY

Inflation will be slow to fall. While the cost of goods has ebbed, a persistent rise in prices of services is keeping inflation high, economists say.

California’s new fast food act would let a council lift wages to $22-an-hour. Unions say workers win, but critics say consumers will pay the price.

Job seekers increasingly are looking for $20, not $15, an hour work. This could keep inflation hot and make the Fed’s inflation fight even tougher.

Student loan repayments will resume in the new year, but now is the time to prepare, especially with the economy looking shaky and inflation soaring.

President Joe Biden signed an executive action Wednesday to forgive $10,000 or more in federal student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans.

To offer future student borrowers relief, Biden plans to cut their discretionary income. How does he plan to do that and how will that help?

Biden’s plan offers up to $20,000 in student loan forgiveness, including pell grants, and repayments based on discretionary income.

Back-to-school shopping is over, but holiday shopping’s just starting. Shelves should be fuller but mostly with lower-priced items as inflation bites.

Retailers and payment processors go to war over whether a bill aiming to curb how much retailers pay to process credit cards would help consumers.