From driving fewer miles to downgrading vacations, Americans are making meaningful changes to their spending. Here’s how five households are coping with the highest inflation in decades.
Tag: Unemployment
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The Potential Dark Side of a White-Hot Labor Market
The strong job market may be about to take a turn for the worse. That could come to haunt those who made choices based on today’s conditions.
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Hiring Remains Strong Even as Fed Tries to Cool Economy
The Labor Department reported 390,000 new jobs in May, as policymakers try to ease inflation without inducing a recession.
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The key numbers in the jobs report and how to interpret them.
Policymakers are trying to strike a balance in cooling inflation without causing a recession — which makes interpreting jobs reports trickier than usual.
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The Economy Is Weird. Two Experts on Where It Goes From Here.
Is the U.S. economy really in bad shape, and is a recession coming?