Living on a single income with a family of five is not easy. For Katie and Marc, living simply and sticking to a strict budget has become a way of life.

New Jersey’s policy of not taxing Social Security benefits represents another financial advantage for retirees dependent on those payments. These tax factors, combined with overall lower living costs, ...

Nestled along the gentle curves of the Chemung River about 90 miles south of Rochester, Elmira exists as a kind of economic anomaly—a place where inflation seems to have taken a detour around the city ...