In rural northern Maine, jobs abound, consumer demand is up and local businesses are offering sign-on bonuses. But many pandemic-weary workers say inflation is dimming their holiday spirit.
, a recent Wall Street Journal poll found. November’s consumer prices were up 6.8% from a year earlier, the Labor Department said Friday, amid continuing high demand and supply shortages.
Another One Stop employee, 50-year-old cashier and deli worker David Day, said he and his wife had walked into a nearby Subway sandwich shop the night before, looked at the prices and walked out.Winter heating costs are also expected to be higher than recent years. Across the country, prices for natural gas—used by about half of U.S. homes for space and water heating—
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