household budgets

How Americans adjust their household budgets to higher energy prices, of course, will determine how much spending rebounds.

Consumer spending has faltered in the face of a squeeze on household budgets and tighter credit.

Waterborne disease is a major cause of stunted development and child mortality, as well as a huge drain on household budgets.

A female lawyer notes that many judges have no idea of how women manage household budgets and child-rearing.

Rising fuel prices are straining household budgets, damping the spending that drives more than two-thirds of the nation's economic activity.

Analysts attributed the widening gap to the wave of layoffs in the economic downturn that have devastated household budgets.

Gamble said food makes up over 50% of household budgets in emerging markets, compared with less than 10% in developed countries.

Food and energy account for a larger portion of household budgets in Asia than in most other regions.

Stocks' recent pullback has put renewed pressure on household budgets. The S&P 500 index has fallen about 4 percent so far in July.

So a shortage isn't just affecting dumplings and stir fry, the staple's 60% price jump is fueling inflation and squeezing household budgets.

Consumers have trimmed household budgets and postponed buying cars, major appliances and other big-ticket items.

While rising food prices strain household budgets in the west, they risk famines in Africa and Asia.

The slower increase has given consumers more time to adjust their household budgets.

These expenses have increased from 0. 9% of household budgets in 1989 to 1. 4% in 2009.