How to Use purchasing power in a Sentence

purchasing power

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  • But people’s pay and purchasing power are still catching up to the levels lost through the price surge.
    — David McHugh, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Hourly wages outpaced price gains in the spring for the first time in two years, giving consumers more purchasing power.
    — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Gill said that Gen X being at the peak of their careers leads to higher purchasing power, and can buy homes and other things.
    — Teddy Grant, ABC News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Over the same span, the minimum wage, unchanged since 2007, has lost roughly half its purchasing power.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2024
  • For the rich or middle class in North America and Europe, this means less purchasing power on a global scale.
    — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 16 June 2023
  • People’s purchasing power is under pressure with inflation and gas prices and all the rest of it.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Money in a safe deposit box will not earn interest, so the purchasing power of your cash will decrease.
    — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 25 June 2023
  • Last year, consumer prices jumped at rates unseen since the 1980s, swiftly eroding the purchasing power of each U.S. dollar.
    — Brian Cheung, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • This comes as inflation has cut into the purchasing power of most households.
    — Catherine Allen, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The slide has made the import of vital goods far more expensive and sapped the purchasing power of ordinary Iranians.
    — David S. Cloud, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Our goal as investment advisers is to protect and grow the purchasing power of your money.
    — Steve Booren, The Denver Post, 19 May 2024
  • And even as household purchasing power is dropping, prices are spiking.
    — Javier Alvarez, Foreign Affairs, 24 Nov. 2014
  • Prices fell last year after mortgage rates more than doubled and suddenly sapped the purchasing power of buyers.
    — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Over the years, inflation reduced the purchasing power of the revenue collected.
    — Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 19 July 2024
  • That debt has piled up as credit card rates have jumped and inflation continues to sap households' purchasing power.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2024
  • These are countries where people are still growing their purchasing power.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 18 June 2024
  • The protections baby boomers enjoyed — strong unions, healthy pensions, and a minimum wage with strong purchasing power — are gone.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The effect would be dramatic for city workers — cutting housing costs in half and doubling their purchasing power.
    — Micah Lasher, New York Daily News, 19 May 2024
  • Firstly, inflation is still high, meaning the purchasing power (or real value) of your cash is guaranteed to go down each year.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • The smaller tax refund in 2023 proved to be a double whammy for many Americans, who were at the same time reeling from high inflation that eroded their purchasing power.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • While earnings growth is now outpacing inflation, the improved purchasing power only amounts to a few cents.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 14 July 2023
  • Many Americans have been relying on credit cards to boost their purchasing power in recent years.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 9 May 2024
  • Bailey Schulz: So the good news for a lot of Americans is that wage growth continues to outpace inflation, which just means that Americans get more purchasing power.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The purchasing power of ‘kidults’ Adults are increasingly shelling out for relics of their youth and for items, ranging from flip phones to film cameras to Tamagotchis, that evoke a late 20th-century or turn-of-the century nostalgia.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Inflation, on the other hand, can make the economy too hot: Wages grow but so do prices, leaving consumers facing sticker shock and eroding their purchasing power.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
  • Instead, the key lies in enhancing the wages and productivity of our workforce, enabling them to enjoy a higher quality of life and to have greater purchasing power.
    — Charlie Campbell, TIME, 21 July 2024
  • So, if employers continue to churn out jobs, and wages continue to grow as inflation slows, then consumers will still have healthy purchasing power.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN, 27 July 2023
  • Retail sales have dropped recently as the purchasing power of US consumers falls from its pandemic-era levels and the economy softens.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 26 June 2023
  • Better weather this year and softer inflation in India mean that the purchasing power of rural inhabitants is higher this year than the last.
    — Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Of course, lovers and haters of Chávez will have different memories of Chávez, but all will remember his spending: socialism had never had so much purchasing power.
    — Javier Corrales, Foreign Affairs, 4 Jan. 2013

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