NYTIMES (Lael Brainard and Rohit Chopra) - Families Across the U.S. Are Struggling With High Prices
We dug into the data, toured the country and ran surveys to find the biggest financial pressures people feel.
AXIOS (Neil Irwin) - Why Americans hate the "good" economy
Data: Bureau of Labor Statistics; Chart: Neil Irwin/Axios The big-picture indicators of the U.S. economy — GDP, unemployment and so on — are doing fine while public opinion on economic conditions is at rock bottom. The big picture: The juxtaposition is the result of not just the elevated prices reflected in macroeconomic data, but higher and more volatile prices for the specific items that dominate Americans' day-to-day living expenses. - That's the early conclusion of top Democratic economic policy minds who have embarked on a new effort to quantify — and develop policy responses to — the economic forces that ail American households. Zoom in: The "Kitchen Table Project," led by Biden White House economic adviser Lael Brainard…