by Quinn Waller | Mar 18, 2025 | Inflation
NEW YORK — Inflation cooled slightly in February but the outlook for future inflation is still somewhat grim as President Trump’s tariff policies remain in flux. The Consumer Price Index, a key measure of inflation, rose 0.2% in the last month, down from 0.5% in...
by Quinn Waller | Feb 16, 2025 | Featured, Inflation
NEW YORK — Consumer prices rose faster than expected in January, due in part to quirks in the way the data is measured but also signaling that progress on reducing inflation has stalled. The Consumer Price Index, a key measure of inflation, rose 0.5% from December, up...
by Max Rivera | May 25, 2024 | Employment, Featured, Inflation
As polls show an uptick in support for the presumed Republican nominee, experts say the support for Trump is tied to inflation and a history of incumbents being held responsible for the nation’s economic woes, something that disproportionately affects Black voters....
by Laura Turbay | May 25, 2024 | Employment, Featured, Housing, Inflation
Imagine a frog in a pot of water. Someone raises the temperature and the frog acclimates to it. But the heat only keeps rising. That’s what inflation feels like to Kody Kohnen, a 22-year old senior at Texas A&M studying agricultural leadership, who explained...
by Jiana Smith | May 20, 2024 | Featured, Inflation, Retail, Trade
Kinani Ahmed, owner of Sextant Coffee Roasters in San Francisco, opened his roastery in 2014 with a goal of sharing the finest coffees of Ethiopia with others. But since the COVID-19 pandemic, that goal has become more and more expensive. The civil war in Ethiopia,...
by Jiana Smith | Apr 15, 2024 | Featured, Inflation, Retail
The U.S. Census Bureau will release its monthly retail sales report on Monday. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg expect a 0.4 percent gain in retail sales for March. Thus far, retail sales have trended softer this year than in 2023, with an unexpected 1.1 percent drop...