Tag Archives: inflation
Young adults grapple with high living costs
By Salmoncain Smith-Shomade Tameka Pierre-Jean, a brand manager at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, has a master’s degree and five-plus years of marketing experience. But the 28-year-old Brooklyn native cannot afford to live on her own, given that the average rent on a 447 square-foot studio apartment, according to Apartment.com’s most recent data, was […]
Lots of losses, lots of loyal fans
By Tyon Posey It has been 12 years since any of New York’s eight major professional teams won a championship. For sports enthusiasts connected by passion and pride to their favorite teams, that’s a huge blow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjpiPxBJyQA “Real sports fans are gonna be with their team win or lose thirty years, forty years. I might […]
Making do with high grocery prices
By Cameron Belcher Walking into her regular supermarket in the East Village, these days, often makes, Jillian Vigon nervous. “I have to swallow kind of hard at certain items, said Vigon, of what have been some steadily rising prices. The costs of store-bought food increased by 23.5 percent from February 2020 to May 2023, according […]