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As of October 2022, inflation is at 7.7% compared to a year prior, with food, airline fares, public transportation, health insurance and gasoline seeing some of the largest price increases. But ...
Annual inflation increased to 8.3% in August 2022, in part due to rising grocery prices. [154] In September, the Fed increased the interest for a fifth time in the year reaching a 14-year high. [155] In November 2022, the year-over-year inflation rate was 7.1%, the lowest it has been since December 2021 but still much higher than average. [156]
It is based upon the statistics of the Smithsonian Institution Newsroom (January 2024) and the annual survey of museum attendance by the Art Newspaper published in March 2023 and 2024. The figures in this survey show the diminishing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic , which had caused all of the museums on the list to be closed for long periods ...
If there was one buzzword in the financial world in 2022, it was inflation. Not only did inflation rise faster than it has in more than 40 years, it triggered an aggressive interest rate-hiking ...
The Federal Reserve has been battling inflation since March 2022, when it began ratcheting up rates to cool the economy, eventually pushing its benchmark rate to its highest level in 23 years.
In a January 2022 letter to the editor of the Federal News Network, new Local 2463 President Reginald Booth wrote that, "Despite the recent rise in COVID cases reported by the Smithsonian, agency heads ignored the pleas of union employees and continued to allow an unlimited number of visitors to pour into the museums over the holiday period." [12]
Smithsonian arranges Museum Day, when museums in all 50 U.S. states offer limited free admission. In 2018, over 1,400 museums participated. [7] [8] The offer includes a free admission for the ticket holder plus one guest and this ticket is specific to the chosen museum only. [9]
The most recent consumer price index (CPI) report puts inflation at 4.98%, a welcome decline from the absolutely crazy highs seen in 2022, but still well above the 3.28% long-term historical ...