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As Americans deal with decades-high inflation, some regions of the country have been hit harder than others such as Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale in Arizona, Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater in Florida and Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas, according to official numbers released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
For younger viewers, it’s going to come as a shock to see ‘That ’70s Show’ for the first time. Spoiler alert: Not much about that decade was transitory.
August 15 marks a special date in American history: it commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s suspension of Bretton Woods. With this decision, the United States stopped redeeming foreign governments’ and banks’ dollars for gold.
Readers Write: American health care, the judiciary, Buffalo shooting Not broken? Stats show otherwise. February 11, 2021 — 5:34pm Text size Copy shortlink: Burton Abrams, an emeritus professor of economics, twice insists that America's health care system is not broken ("U.S. medicine compares well," Opinion Exchange, Feb. 11) and indeed is the best among large countries. These conclusions are based entirely on data indicating that had our death rate in the pandemic been similar to that found in the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy,...