Many Californians have to earn substantially more than minimum wage to cover basic expenses.

California's housing costs remained far higher than the rest of the country, but price differences for another service were ...

In California, 27% of survey respondents reported that they believed the state is affordable, ranking as the #12 least ...

When the Public Policy Institute of California released a new poll late last month, media coverage mainly focused on how the ...

A new ConsumerAffairs report shows a six figure salary stretches the least in California's biggest cities. In San Francisco and Oakland, a $100,000 paycheck has purchasing power of $62,371 after ...

Even a $100,000 salary barely goes the distance in San Francisco and Oakland, where steep taxes and soaring housing costs ...

We Californians know, or should know, that while living in this state has many positive aspects, we are paying through the nose for the experience. A flurry of recent studies drives home how deeply ...

To put a modern California twist on the old Bill Clinton line about the U.S. economy: “It’s the cost of living, stupid.” As masseuse Liz Angeles wrote in The California Post on Wednesday, residents of ...

Newsom has repeatedly blamed California's affordability crisis on Trump's tariffs. California has by far the highest cost of living of any state in the nation — and it’s getting worse every year. But ...

How expensive is it to simply function in California? Shocker – very expensive. Cost of living and incomes vary widely from ...

California is one of the country’s most resource-rich states in the union. Wonderful year-round weather and the historic allure of the West have drawn millions of people to the Golden State. Despite ...

Last year’s presidential election underscored, particularly to Democrats, that the costs of living were a major factor in the outcome. Inflation had increased sharply during Joe Biden’s presidency, ...