date:May 04, 2014
erican families receiving those benefits, and the employment ratio and underemployment continue to lag the improvement in the headline unemployment rate, he said. More recently, weve even seen evidence of cost pressures on lower- and middle-income households due to higher heating bills and even middle- and upper-middle-income consumers incrementally impacted by larger 2013 tax bills. This was most visible as we got into March and April, but wed expect these more recent factors to fade as we move