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Buying a home was hard before the pandemic. Somehow, it keeps getting harder. Prices, already sky-high, have gotten even higher, up nearly 40 percent over the past three years. Available homes have gotten scarcer: Listings are down nearly 20 percent over the same period. And now interest rates have soared to a 20-year high, eroding […]
US mortgage rates climbed to a six-week high as 2022 drew to a close, resulting in a sharp decline in home-purchase applications. The contract rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage increased to 6.58% in the week ended Dec. 30 from 6.42%, according to Mortgage Bankers Association data released Wednesday. Source link
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The number of abortions in the United States has increased, reversing what had been a three-decade decline, according to a new report. The uptick began in 2017 and, as of 2020, one in five pregnancies, or 20.6 percent, ended in abortion, according to the report by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion […]
When Janet Edwards took on the job of mortuary officer at the U.S. Air Force Academy Cemetery in 1992, she had never seen a dead body. She had never been to a funeral, let alone facilitated one — and the first burial she had to oversee was that of a 9-year-old boy. The woman training […]
U.S. inflation hit a three-decade high in October—rising at a 6.2% annual rate—as pandemic-related supply shortages and continued strength in consumer demand continued to push up prices. The Labor Department said the consumer-price index, which measures what consumers pay for goods and services, increased at the fastest annual pace since 1990. Inflation also topped 5% […]
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