Food prices for Americans rose in May, an increase that adds to the pain of consumers pinched by higher prices.Overall food prices rose 0.2 percent in May from the prior […]
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Back to news homeHigher Food Prices Bring Bigger Profits, but Consumers Start to Resist
Brenetta Smith used to buy brand-name foods like Oreos and Doritos without thinking twice. But when she noticed that food prices at her local supermarket, Aldi, were soaring, she realized […]
California Economy Is on Edge After Tech Layoffs and Studio Cutbacks
California has often been at the country’s economic forefront. Now, as fears of a national recession continue to nag, the state is hoping not to lead the way there.While the […]
Consumers Try to Change Their Spending Habits After the Pandemic
Early in the pandemic, Ms. Joss had begun ordering bottles from her neighborhood wine shop. When restaurants in the area began offering groceries, she bought them. She wanted to support […]
Food Prices Weigh on Seniors’ Savings, Health and Even Social Ties
“Food, for many older adults, is a way to bring family to you, and if you cannot afford it, you’re either not going to do it or you’re going to […]
FAA Outage Highlights Fragility of the Aviation System
Tens of thousands of flights were delayed or canceled around Christmas when frigid weather and storms made travel treacherous. But the weather was mostly fine on Wednesday morning when flights […]
Why Hitting the Debt Ceiling Would Be Very Bad for the U.S. Economy
WASHINGTON — The new Republican majority in the House of Representatives has Washington and Wall Street bracing for a revival of brinkmanship over the nation’s statutory debt limit, raising fears […]
Washington Post’s Business Struggles as Frustrations Mount
In the years after Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013, business boomed. Droves of readers bought digital subscriptions, and the newsroom roughly doubled in size, adding hundreds more […]
6 Ways You’re Coping With a Roller-Coaster Market
We measure the health of the economy as a whole by a few big numbers — interest rates, which the Federal Reserve raised by three-quarters of a point on Wednesday; […]
Republicans Who Assailed Biden’s Stimulus Bill Are Embracing the Money
“It’s like the python that ate the rat,” Brad Whitehead, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, said of the struggle to shepherd so much federal money […]