Mitchell Hartman
speaker
1,173 appearances
40 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 6d ago
Mitchell Hartman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 39 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 7.
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Consumers aren't, you know, going around doing that calculation.
Johnny Sawyer is at public opinion firm Ipsos.
And employers aren't under much pressure to increase wages because workers are staying put even in the face of anemic raises, says Amy Glazer at staffing firm ADECO.
So as purchasing power is eroded, what are consumers doing?
A lot of people have been forced to dip into savings and take on debt.
Ted Rossman is at nonprofit credit counseling firm Money Management International.
He says it's not just low income consumers, it's also middle income earners finding that rising prices have eaten up their entire paycheck before the end of the month.
Consumers are trading down, spending more frugally, says Joanne Shu at the University of Michigan Consumer Surveys, but not everybody.
I'm Mitchell Hartman for Marketplace.
There's still a need and this particular labor force was
Let's start with the sector that lost the most jobs in July, local government education, which is mostly K through twelve public schools, down almost fifty thousand.
Such a sharp drop could be a flaw in seasonal adjustment, says Elise Gould at the Economic Policy Institute, because so many teachers are laid off in the summer.
When school's still in session.
Financial services is another job loser.
It's down one hundred fourteen thousand in the last year.
This is partly about the weak housing market and high mortgage rates, says Brian Bethune at Boston College.
Also at risk are back office jobs in areas like compliance and fraud prevention, says nationwide economist Kathy Bust Jansik.
Busjensik points to another sector that's lost jobs in both June and July, leisure and hospitality.
Andrew Flowers at recruitment technology firm Appcast sees a reason that both leisure and hospitality and retail shed jobs in July.
And companies are ready to let their headcounts shrink in case consumers keep getting more frugal into the fall.
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