On food spending, recession hit middle-income households the hardest
If they didn’t tighten their belts, Americans certainly pinched their pennies on food during the 2008-09 recession and the recovery that stretched far into this decade. Household spending on food fell by 7 percent between 2007 and 2010, and middle-income households continued to spend less on food through 2016 in inflation-adjusted dollars than they did… » Read More
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