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FILE - A young customer looks at a Halloween mask at a Party City store, Oct. 6, 2021, in Miami. Prices for U.S. consumers jumped 6.2% in October compared with a year earlier as surging costs for food, gas and housing left Americans grappling with the highest inflation rate since 1990. The year-over-year increase in the consumer price index exceeded the 5.4% rise in September, the Labor Department reported Wednesday, Nov, 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

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Prices surge as holiday season looms

by Christopher Rugaber Associated PressNovember 10, 2021

FILE - A hiring sign is displayed in Downers Grove, Ill., on June 24, 2021. The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to a fresh pandemic low last week, Thursday, Nov. 4, another sign the job market is healing after last year’s coronavirus recession. Jobless claims dropped by 14,000 to 269,000 last week. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

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Half-million jobs added as economy picks up

by Christopher Rugaber Associated PressNovember 5, 2021

FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2021, file photo, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Powell says the tangled supply chains and shortages that have bedeviled the U.S. economy since this summer have gotten worse and will likely keep inflation elevated well into next year. (Sarah Silbiger/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Fed to slow economic aid on inflation fears

by Christopher Rugaber Associated PressNovember 3, 2021

FILE - In this Sept. 22, 2021, file photo, a hiring sign is placed at a booth for Jameson's Irish Pub during a job fair in the West Hollywood section of Los Angeles. California's historic hiring slowed down in September as the state added 47,400 new jobs. California has been averaging more than 100,000 new jobs each month since February. New data released Friday, Oct. 22, 2021, by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows California is now tied with Nevada for the highest unemployment rate in the country at 7.5%. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

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Amid worker scarcity, US wages jump by most in 20 years

by Christopher Rugaber Associated PressOctober 29, 2021

Curtis McCray, a Mississippi Department of Corrections recruiter, left, points out a positive testimonial to a job applicant during the Lee County Area Job Fair in Tupelo, Miss., Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021. Employers representing a variety of manufacturing, production, service industry, medical and clerical companies attended the day long affair with an eye towards recruitment, hiring, training and retention. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Where are the workers? Cutoff of jobless aid spurs no influx

by Christopher Rugaber Associated Press/Report for America, and Casey Smith Associated Press/Report for AmericaOctober 22, 2021

This Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, photo shows a Social Security card in Tigard, Ore. Millions of retirees on Social Security will get a 5.9% boost in benefits for 2022. The biggest cost-of-living adjustment in 39 years follows a burst in inflation as the economy struggles to shake off the drag of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

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Social Security benefits boosted

by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Associated Press, and Christopher Rugaber Associated PressOctober 13, 2021

A sign in the parking lot of Mariano's grocery store advertises the availability of jobs Friday, Oct. 8, 2021, in Chicago. One reason America’s employers are having trouble filling jobs was starkly illustrated in a report Tuesday, Oct. 12: Americans are quitting in droves. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Workers quit jobs at record pace

by Christopher Rugaber Associated PressOctober 12, 2021

Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Goran K Hansson, center, announces the 2021 Nobel prize for economics, flanked by members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Peter Fredriksson, left, and Eva Mork, during a press conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday, Oct. 11, 2021. From left on the screen above are the winners David Card of the University of California at Berkeley; Joshua Angrist from the Massachusetts...

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Labor research wins economics Nobel

by Christopher Rugaber Associated Press, David McHugh Associated Press, and David Keyton Associated PressOctober 11, 2021

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 31, 2017, file photo, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan speaks to a breakfast meeting at the Council on Foreign Relations, in New York. On Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, the Dallas Fed announced that Kaplan will step down as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in early October. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

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Two top Fed officials retire in wake of trading disclosures

by Christopher Rugaber Associated PressSeptember 27, 2021

Steven Dyme, owner of Flowers for Dreams, poses for a portrait at his warehouse Friday, July 23, 2021, in Chicago. Dyme says the $15 minimum made it much easier to staff up when the economy reopened this spring and demand for flowers, particularly for weddings, soared. The company has four locations, including its headquarters in Chicago, one in Milwaukee, and two in Detroit. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

$15 wage becoming norm as employers struggle to fill jobs

by Christopher Rugaber Associated PressJuly 27, 2021