Spending on wildfire recovery has been growing for years. Plus, gas prices affect inflation, even when they’re excluded from the calculations.
In the past 10 years, the state’s firefighting agency, Cal Fire, has seen its budget more than double to $3.7 billion.
Higher yields compensate for the higher risk of investing for 10 or 30 years, when it’s hard to predict how that future economy might look.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that pump prices on average were 21 cents lower per gallon in 2024 than they were in 2023.
The bargaining power that workers had a couple of years ago is not nearly as strong today.
Some Americans work a second job to make ends meet. Others do it to build up cash or gain experience in a different field.
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