The CPI rose by 4.9% from a year earlier, the first sub-5% reading in two years.
Employers announced about 67,000 job cuts last month, bringing the total this year to roughly 340,000.
While the pace of job growth accelerated last month, wages cooled.
Job openings at small firms jumped 80% in February from the start of last year.
At the same time, tightening credit conditions have caused analysts to lower some inflation predictions.
Despite signs of stabilizing, the housing market is still on shaky footing.
In almost half of opposite-sex marriages in the US, women now earn at least as much or more than their husbands...
Some Fed policymakers have recently hinted that they'd be open to a rate pause.
Slower wage growth and lower tax returns weighed on card spending.
College-educated and Black women are more likely to out-earn their husbands.