Heavy burden for consumers as holidays near: Soaring prices
Heavy burden for consumers as holidays near: Soaring prices
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
WASHINGTON (AP) — A worsening surge of inflation for such bedrock necessities as food, rent, autos and heating oil is setting Americans up for a financially difficult Thanksgiving and holiday shopping season.
Prices for U.S. consumers jumped 6.2% in October compared with a year earlier, leaving families facing their highest inflation rate since 1990, the Labor Department…