Economy
What types of stores have the highest sales during the holiday season?
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Retail sales rebounded from pandemic lows; some categories even bounced back higher than pre-pandemic levels.
The rate of children facing limited availability of nutritional and safe foods to meet basic needs increased by 17% between 2019 and 2020.
Transportation & Infrastructure
More people are flying, and being unruly, compared to the first year of the pandemic. Here’s how that impacts on-time arrivals.
A dollar’s purchasing power decreases over time, but the Federal Reserve has ways of addressing this.
Demographic data shows how the Native American population is younger than Americans overall.
Health officials in North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Alaska recently released data on reinfections based on vaccination status.
Jobs & Unemployment
The economy added 531,000 jobs last month. The unemployment rate fell to 4.6%.
Cases are down 59% from the surge’s peak but are six times higher than the pandemic low in June.
Federal investments in universities affected over 3,000 schools including 17.5 million graduate and undergraduate students.
Jobs & Unemployment
White, Black, and Hispanic or Latino women have not returned to pre-pandemic rates of labor participation.
