With the pandemic fading, many feel like it might be time for a glow up.
The problem is that consumers spent most of their stimulus checks with large chains and e-commerce retailers.
Since the start of the pandemic, more than 100 million claims for unemployment insurance have been filed.
Employment moved higher among service firms in the New York metropolitan area for the first time since March 2020.
More Americans are planning to take their Social Security benefits earlier than they originally planned.
Americans earned an additional $1.1 trillion last year thanks to stimulus checks and government aid.
The incomes of almost 80 million Americans are tied in some way to the CPI.
Public spending to counter the pandemic has already taken U.S. debt to a post-World War II record.
Yet credit card debt fell the most on record through 2020.
CEOs expect improvement in the labor market over the next year. The outlook for employee wages also improved.