Oct 14, 2026 · 5 min · 9 segments
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President Trump is spending the final weeks of the midterm campaign season visiting primarily GOP strongholds.
Trump is banking on the GOP base to help keep Congress under Republican control.
Today's inflation report is an important one because it's the last piece of a puzzle used to calculate the cost of living adjustment that Social Security recipients will get next year.
We now know benefits will go up three point six percent starting in January, which means the average retiree will get an extra seventy-five bucks a month.
It's just enough to allow people who depend on Social Security to keep treading water.
President Trump is spending the final weeks of the midterm campaign season visiting primarily GOP strongholds.
Trump is banking on the GOP base to help keep Congress under Republican control.
Today's inflation report is an important one because it's the last piece of a puzzle used to calculate the cost of living adjustment that Social Security recipients will get next year.
We now know benefits will go up three point six percent starting in January, which means the average retiree will get an extra seventy-five bucks a month.
It's just enough to allow people who depend on Social Security to keep treading water.
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