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Comparing “better” under Biden or Trump depends on which metrics you use: inflation was much higher early in Biden’s term (peaking around 9% in 2022) but came down later, while early in Trump’s second...
U.S. unemployment rose from an annual average of 4.0% in 2024 to monthly readings around 4.1–4.3% in early-to-mid 2025, with the December 2024 jobless rate at 4.1% and August 2025 at 4.3% (monthly) — ...
Grocery prices rose sharply during Joe Biden’s presidency—U.S. “food at home” CPI climbed about 20.7% from Jan 2021 to Dec 2023, outpacing average hourly wage growth of 14.7% over the same period (Wis...
Annual U.S. inflation eased to about 2.9% at the end of 2024 (December 2024) and early-2025 12‑month measures showed a modest uptick to roughly 3.0% by January 2025, reflecting a tight band around the...
Historical data assembled in the provided analyses converge on a clear finding: , with national health expenditures increasing from roughly $1.4 trillion in 2000 to about $4.9 trillion in 2023 and pri...
Grocery (food-at-home) price growth eased in 2025 compared with the sharp increases of 2022–2024 largely because headline food inflation moderated, some commodity and farm-level prices softened, and p...
Annual CPI inflation by calendar year from 2009–2025 moved from very low levels during the Obama years to a sharp spike during the early Biden term and then toward moderation into 2025; reporting roun...
Inflation surged to a peak of 9.1% in June 2022 during Joe Biden’s presidency and averaged substantially higher than the pre‑pandemic years; multiple retrospective accounts put cumulative price increa...
Wages in 2025 showed modest but consistent gains over 2024: nominal average weekly wages rose about 4.2% between July 2024 and July 2025 and several official series report year‑over‑year wage increase...
CPI inflation rose sharply early in Joe Biden’s term, peaked in mid‑2022, and then cooled but remained above pre‑pandemic norms through January 2025, leaving a four‑year average materially higher than...
Locality pay for 2026 will be shaped by two competing inputs: technical recommendations from the Federal Salary Council/OPM based on BLS compensation surveys and the Pay Agent’s political decision to ...
OPM and the Federal Salary Council laid out proposed comparability payments for 2026, but the White House’s 2026 alternative pay plan would freeze locality pay at 2025 levels—meaning projected localit...
Grocery (food-at-home) prices jumped sharply in 2022, then slowed: food prices rose 11.4% in 2022, 5.8% in 2023 and 2.3% in 2024, and USDA/ERS forecast food-at-home to increase about 3.3% in 2025 (ERS...
There is no single authoritative claim in the provided reporting that “40,000 people die for every 1% rise in unemployment.” Academic and public-health studies do find higher mortality associated with...
During Donald Trump’s first term and into the COVID crisis the U.S. labor market swung from historically low unemployment — 3.5% pre-pandemic — to a pandemic peak above 14% and then partial recovery, ...
One year ago, in December 2024, the U.S. national average for a gallon of regular gasoline hovered right around the $3 mark—AAA reported $3.02–$3.03 in early December and industry summaries show the n...
The largest gaps between U.S. CPI inflation and real wages in the 2009–2025 window occurred during the 2021–2023 inflation surge, when CPI rose much faster than nominal wages and real wages fell for a...
Retail egg prices averaged roughly $1–$2 per dozen in pre‑pandemic years but jumped sharply by 2024–2025; sources show monthly retail averages around $4.82 at the start of 2023 and spikes into the $5–...
Unemployment fell sharply from pandemic peaks during Biden’s term — from about 6.4–6.7% in January 2021 to roughly 4.1% by the end of his term — while labor force participation recovered from its COVI...
Farm-level milk prices entering the beginning of the Trump administration in January 2025 were near the recovered 2024/early‑2025 level — USDA Economic Research Service’s “all‑milk” forecast for 2025 ...