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Skip to Main ContentThis copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed byour Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contactDow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit www.djreprints.com.https://www.wsj.com/articles/economy-revs-up-as-americans-increase-spending-on-flights-lodging-dining-out-11616146202ShareBy and Updated March 19, 2021 5:31 am ETListen to article(9 minutes)Restaurant and hotel . Airplane tickets . Consumers spent more on gyms, salons and spas in recent...…Skip to Main ContentThis copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed byour Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contactDow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit www.djreprints.com.https://www.wsj.com/articles/economy-revs-up-as-americans-increase-spending-on-flights-lodging-dining-out-11616146202ShareBy and Updated March 19, 2021 5:31 am ETListen to article(9 minutes)Restaurant and hotel . Airplane tickets . Consumers spent more on gyms, salons and spas in recent...WW…

Skip to Main ContentSkip to Searchhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/weekly-jobless-claims-coronavirus-01-14-2021-11610573648ByandWorker filings for initial jobless claims jumped to nearly one million last week, indicating rising layoffs amid at the start of the year.The number of applications for unemployment benefits, a proxy for layoffs, , the Labor Department said Thursday. That put initial jobless claims at their highest level since mid-August and well above the roughly 800,000 a week they have averaged in recent months.The increase is another sign that the economic recovery is sputtering,...…Skip to Main ContentSkip to Searchhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/weekly-jobless-claims-coronavirus-01-14-2021-11610573648ByandWorker filings for initial jobless claims jumped to nearly one million last week, indicating rising layoffs amid at the start of the year.The number of applications for unemployment benefits, a proxy for layoffs, , the Labor Department said Thursday. That put initial jobless claims at their highest level since mid-August and well above the roughly 800,000 a week they have averaged in recent months.The increase is another sign that the economic recovery is sputtering,...WW…

By ReporterMay 27, 2015Los Angeles and 25 other southern California cities are paying their residents up to $6,000 to dig up their lawns and put in fake turf and woodchips—part of a bid to help meet the state’s issued in April. That comes out to about $2 per square foot of lawn replaced.It’s easy to see why: During California’s summer dry season, 50-80% of residential water consumption comes from lawn care and other outdoor uses, .So far, the lawn replacement program has proven wildly popular. Since governor Jerry Brown’s executive order to cut urban water use,...…By ReporterMay 27, 2015Los Angeles and 25 other southern California cities are paying their residents up to $6,000 to dig up their lawns and put in fake turf and woodchips—part of a bid to help meet the state’s issued in April. That comes out to about $2 per square foot of lawn replaced.It’s easy to see why: During California’s summer dry season, 50-80% of residential water consumption comes from lawn care and other outdoor uses, .So far, the lawn replacement program has proven wildly popular. Since governor Jerry Brown’s executive order to cut urban water use,...WW…

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By Published November 21, 2019The numbers tell one story. Unemployment in the US is the lowest it’s been in 50 years. More Americans have jobs than ever before. Wage growth keeps climbing.People tell a different story. Long job hunts. Trouble finding work with decent pay. A lack of predictable hours.These accounts are hard to square with the record-long economic expansion and robust labor market described in headline statistics. Put another way, when you compare the lived reality with the data and it’s clear something big is getting lost in translation. But a team of researchers thinks they...…By Published November 21, 2019The numbers tell one story. Unemployment in the US is the lowest it’s been in 50 years. More Americans have jobs than ever before. Wage growth keeps climbing.People tell a different story. Long job hunts. Trouble finding work with decent pay. A lack of predictable hours.These accounts are hard to square with the record-long economic expansion and robust labor market described in headline statistics. Put another way, when you compare the lived reality with the data and it’s clear something big is getting lost in translation. But a team of researchers thinks they...WW…