Lower prices offer Americans slight reprieve from inflation
Lower prices offer Americans slight reprieve from inflation
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER | Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Falling prices for gas, airline tickets and clothes helped give Americans a slight break from the pain of high inflation last month, though overall price increases slowed only modestly from the four-decade high that was reached in June.
Consumer prices jumped 8.5% in July compared with a year earlier, the government said Wednesday, down from…