In the book, Cooper also recalls his personal interactions. As a thirteen-year-old, he first met Brooke Astor while at lunch with his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt – in some respects the ends of their respective dynasties. "If somebody passing by the restaurant in that moment had seen Brooke A...
It was the biggest yearly decline since fiscal 2014, when sales tax increases stoked broader rises in prices and pushed real wages down by 2.9%. The data suggested that wages must rise even more to outpace inflation and help boost consumers' purchasing power and private ...