The cost of living has risen for leisure and hospitality workers while a hot labor market has spurred salary growth for low-paid workers – but this growth is starting to slow down. Marielle Fabie-Hussey, like many restaurant workers, left her job during the pandemic due to lost hours, burnout, and […]
Juanita Waters wasn’t ready to quit working. But the United States Postal Inspection Service, where she worked for nearly 25 years, had a mandatory age cap in place. So, in March, she retired from the agency and left for a job in the private sector as an investigator for TD Bank.
U.S. inflation soared to a 40-year high last month as geopolitical tensions drove up energy prices and supply chain hurdles compounded price pressures driven by consumer demand. The Consumer Price Index rose 8.5% in March from a year earlier, overshooting the Dow Jones economists’ prediction that consumer prices would rise […]
The US Commerce Department will publish its March durable goods advanced report Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. EST. Economists are spread wide on what they expect to see since February’s report was the first significant decline in more than a year. Here’s what to watch for: Slow growth and possible recession […]
When Alina McKnight’s middle daughter was experiencing a lack of motivation and mental health issues during the pandemic, her mother spent a little extra money on a new outfit. In that outfit, she aced an interview for a tutoring gig. “Those two hours after school as a tutor, she’s able […]
An unexpected cross-country trip wasn’t something Jenavy Castro-Hernandez thought she and seven other family members would be doing, but when her uncle’s job sent him to New York, they packed their things, ready to meet him there by March 14. Arranging five children and three adults into her aunt’s old […]
Sarah Palmer was feeling burnt out and ready to leave her job in the addiction and mental health field in Dayton, Ohio, even before the COVID-19 pandemic began. Then the pandemic added stress to her job, while also showing her that working from home appealed to her. So in February, […]
Durable goods orders declined slightly in February as global supply chain issues lingered and inclement weather pushed the manufacturing industry’s steady recovery off track. New orders for durable goods – items with a life expectancy of at least three years – declined 1.1%, according to the Department of Commerce. This is […]
Erica Stewart’s husband is a coal miner in West Virginia. Every day he goes to work packed shoulder to shoulder with other miners with little precautions taken against the coronavirus. Stewart, a mother of six, is at increased risk of severe illness and death from the virus due to an […]
SirCom, based in Temecula, California, needs parts out of Germany and China to manufacture its early warning systems. Some 70% of the products that were expected in the last week of February and the first week of March never arrived. The company has not received an expected delivery date. “We […]