The Federal Reserve wrongly fears deflation while Main Street worries about the rising cost of living.
FORBES: Home Prices Could Drop 50% As The Great Recession Resumes
There was a brief wage freeze, but since then she says her pay packet has kept up with the rising cost of living.
That means the military will receive a 1.45% increase in basic pay in May, which is still below the rising cost of living.
This 1.8% rise is slightly lower than the typical rise in earnings and the current rate of inflation, which represents the rising cost of living.
It also pushes up prices and the rising cost of living has been cited as one of the biggest concerns among voters leading up to the election.
There is widespread grumbling about the rising cost of living.
Over time, money market investing can actually make a person poorer in the sense that the dollars they earn may not keep pace with the rising cost of living.
Most of Malawi's estimated 120, 000 civil servants - including teachers and immigration officers - are on strike demanding wage increases to counter the rising cost of living, our correspondent says.
Keeping up with the rising cost of living and credit card debt were top concerns preventing people from falling asleep, according to the results from ComPsych Corporation, which surveyed employees of companies it serves.
Parliamentarians said that a government handout to help people deal with the rising cost of living was not enough, while the government fretted that spending more would fuel inflation, already close to 10% a year.
ECONOMIST: An experiment in democracy fails to inspire the neighbours
Sir Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, said on Wednesday that while there were some signs of optimism for the UK economy, the rising cost of living would remain stubbornly high for some time.
Demonstrators marched in countries around the world, with fury in Europe over austerity measures and rage in Asia over relentlessly low pay, the rising cost of living and hideous working conditions that have left hundreds dead in recent months alone.
"The escalation of graduate debt over the last decade is the net result of the rising cost of living, the continued impact of the introduction of tuition fees and the abolition of the grant system, " Jeremy Law, Barclays spokesman, said.
On Friday, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti said the situation was tense in the southwestern town of Les Cayes a day after demonstrations over the rising cost of living there led to an attack against the U.N. office.
This suggests that the base pay rates remain too low and that many workers are struggling to make ends meet given the rising cost of living in China and the difficulty that single children have in supporting two aging parents.
FORBES: Just What Would Be The Right Wages For Apple's Foxconn Workers To Make?
Moreover, in Britain the shortage of available land in country areas means that the trend towards urban living may increase despite the rising cost of urban housing.
However, shopping in Spain is very cheap, and with the exchange rate generally rising in my favour, the cost of living for me is slowly falling.
Chinese locals have been complaining incessantly to the government about the rapid and rising cost of urban living.
The toxic combination of rising women's unemployment, cuts to welfare and the ever-increasing cost of living in the capital means that life for London's women is going to get tougher.
It distorts economic decision making: Hard assets, such as oil, gold and land, may look awfully good when the cost of living is rising more than 10% a year--which is what happened in the 1970s and early 1980s.
The UK government says that with people living longer, the cost of public sector pensions is rising and reforms are needed.
BBC: NASUWT Cymru: Quiet revolution claim at Swansea meeting
As for those who are working, wages are not rising enough to keep up with the cost of living.
FORBES: Stay Tuned For Fed-Induced Hyperinflation And Depression
The aim has been to cut the cost of running the pension schemes, which has been rising partly because people have been living longer.
Indeed, a rising cost-of-living during the 1980s and 1990s saw the yen-value of gold fall, down by 75% over that 20-year stretch.
Nevertheless, Wally Neil's father Dan, a motoring writer for the Wall Street Journal, is convinced that "American youth have fallen out of love with automobiles" because of the rising cost of motoring and the fact that they are "living their lives online".
But now economists and the European Central bank fear that inflation could be sent even higher by rising wages, as workers demand to be compensated for the spiralling cost of living.
He welcomes the protection of some disability benefits, but believes people with disabilities are still being hit harder than most, with the triple whammy of cuts to benefits, cuts to services and a rising cost of living.
If you live in the United States, your cost of living, even by official stats, is rising twice as fast as in Zimbabwe.
应用推荐