Consumers across Europe are feeling the squeeze, with 73% reporting higher prices for goods and services in the first half of the year. At the same time, wages and savings haven’t kept pace: 25% of surveyed respondents said their income dropped in the first half of 2024, and 28% said they didn’t save as much. Continue reading
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Voters Reveal Their Healthcare Priorities for the Next President in New eHealth Report
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — With the presidential election less than two months away, new research published today by eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH) (eHealth.com), a leading private online health insurance marketplace, shows that Republicans and Democrats are united in their growing alarm at the rising cost of healthcare and are looking to the next president to address it. Continue reading
Mini budget: will Kwasi Kwarteng’s plan deliver growth?
Steve Schifferes, City, University of London
The UK economy has been dogged by slow growth for a long time. Combined with even slower growth in productivity, it has meant virtually no increase in living standards for the average family over the past decade.