Personal Spending Up, But Less Than Expected

December 23, 2003

Spending by U.S. consumers rose by 0.4 percent in November and personal incomes increase by 0.5 percent, according to the Commerce Department’s report this morning. Economists see it as a slowdown, however, now that tax rebate spending has trailed off.

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Waffle House workers in Conyers, Georgia, are now on their third day of striking over what they call the company’s unfair policies. Led by the Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW), Waffle House employees are demanding an end to the mandatory “meal credit” deductions from their paychecks, along with better wages and improved working conditions.