household
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The median home price is roughly five times the median household income, according to Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies; in the 1990s, it was closer to three times.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
In explaining the gap, Yi describes what he calls a contamination cycle: Census figures were adjusted upward using education and household registration data that had themselves been exaggerated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
But growth is estimated to slow in 2027 to 1.2% due to higher energy prices and long-term interest rates weighing on household spending and business investment.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Stocks now account for more than a 30% share of total U.S. household assets, versus real estate at closer to 25%, according to the below chart from TD Securities.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
Behind the cart stood Mrs. Clarke, Margaret, and nearly a dozen other members of the household staff.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
In addition, the IMF has said households are likely to continue feeling the pinch of rising prices.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
“What interest rates can do is raise debt-servicing costs for lower-income households, suppress job creation and increase the cost of the very investments needed to build resilience against future shocks,” Weber writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
They found that 20% of households lived “hand to mouth,” but that the consumption behavior of the other 80% was consistent with their forward-looking hypothesis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Nick, a heating oil customer from West Suffolk, told the BBC's Your Voice that "off-grid households remain a major policy blind spot" for the government.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Clearly, the mysterious killing force was still in Philadelphia, still working its way into households despite every precaution, still infecting at an alarming rate.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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