Inflation rose 0.3% in April and 8.3% year-over-year, according to April Consumer Price Index data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Wednesday, May 11. The most recent numbers represent a modest reprieve from March's staggering 1.2% month-over-month increase. Stacker analyzed the Consumer Price Index data to determine which common grocery store items saw the largest price increases in April. Despite the overall pace of headline inflation easing, the cost of groceries alone increased 10.8% since April 2021"the largest annual increase in 42 years. This increase was driven largely by a rise in prices of meat, poultry, fish, and eggs"up 14.3% year-over-year and the largest 12-month increase since 1979. Looking more recently, April marked a 1% month-over-month increase in food at home prices. While this is down from the 1.5% gains recorded in March, it is still the 17th consecutive month the food costs, on the whole, have risen.
Florida attracted a record number of tourists during the first three months of 2022, surpassing totals from similar quarters before the COVID-19 pandemic rocked the hospitality and leisure industry. Visit Florida, the state's tourism-marketing agency, posted information Friday showing that 35.982 million people traveled to the state between the start of January and the end of March. With tourism a key engine of the state's economy, that was 39.6 percent higher than during the first quarter of 2021, a time when COVID-19 vaccines were becoming more widely available. read more
For a respiratory disease, COVID-19 causes some peculiar symptoms. It can diminish the senses of smell and taste, leave patients with discolored "COVID toes" or even cause a swollen, bumpy "COVID tongue." Now scientists are examining a possible link to an altogether unexpected consequence of COVID-19: erectile dysfunction. read more
President Joe Biden on Thursday named Karine Jean-Pierre to be the next White House press secretary, with incumbent Jen Psaki set to leave the role next week. read more
The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO. The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision " Planned Parenthood v. Casey " that largely maintained the right. "Roe was egregiously wrong from the start," Alito writes. "We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled," he writes in the document, labeled as the "Opinion of the Court." "It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives." read more
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