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.
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Immigrants – particularly those from African nations – are a growing share of the U.S. Black population.
49% of Americans say the availability of affordable housing in their local community is a major problem, up 10 points from early 2018.
Among adults 25 and older who have no education beyond high school, more women have left the labor force than men.
Adoption of key technologies by those in the oldest age group has grown markedly since about a decade ago.
Amid rising inequality, many Americans feel that the U.S. economic system is unfair and generally favors powerful special interests.
American workers in some sectors and industries are seeing far smaller wage gains than those in others.
Americans relocated less during the COVID-19 outbreak, moving from one residence to another in 2020 at the lowest rate in more than 70 years.
Nearly half of U.S. adults say the pandemic has driven people in their community apart. Many see a long road to recovery: About one-in-five say life in their community will never get back to the way it was before COVID-19.
There are racial and ethnic differences in who takes on gig platform jobs and the negative experiences some of these workers say they face.