As inflation soars, a look at what’s inside the consumer price index
The CPI-U is the most widely cited inflation metric, so it’s worth popping the hood and looking inside to see how it works.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
The CPI-U is the most widely cited inflation metric, so it’s worth popping the hood and looking inside to see how it works.
Third-quarter 2021 inflation was higher in nearly all (39) of the 46 nations analyzed than in the pre-pandemic third quarter of 2019.
As concern about federal spending rises among both Democrats and Republicans, here’s a primer on the national debt of the United States.
Fewer than a third (30.8%) of U.S. teens had a paying job last summer. In 2019, 35.8% of teens worked over the summer.
Union membership has had a somewhat unexpected – but likely temporary – turnaround amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Putting minimum wage policy in the hands of lawmakers is one of several ways in which the U.S. approach stands apart from other countries.
Renters headed 36% of U.S. households in 2019. Young people, racial and ethnic minorities, and those with lower incomes are more likely to rent.
Response to the pandemic has pushed the federal budget higher than it’s been in decades, but Americans are slightly less concerned about the deficit than in recent years.
COVID-19 may yet do what years of advocacy have failed to: Make telework a benefit available to more than a relative handful of U.S. workers.
The last year the Postal Service recorded any profit was 2006, and its cumulative losses since then totaled $83.1 billion as of March 31.
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