That could be a worrying sign of financial precarity for families with lower incomes, since many have been relying on cash reserves built up during the pandemic to cushion them against price spikes. The economy has recovered almost 19 million of the 22 million jobs lost near the peak of virus-induced suspensions in activity in 2020. As recently as last February, the Congressional Budget Office predicted that it might take until 2024 to reach the current unemployment rate of 3.9 percent, down from a peak of 14.7 percent in April 2020. Last year “was defined by very strong policy support,” said Julia Coronado, a former Federal Reserve economist and a professor of finance at the University of Texas at Austin. “And 2022 is going to be defined by the removal of that support,” by Congress and the Fed alike.
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