Sources:

- Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2024 - Banking and Credit (Federal Reserve): https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2025-economic-well-being-of-us-households-in-2024-banking-and-credit.htm

- Sanders, Hawley Introduce Bill Capping Credit Card Interest Rates at 10% (Senator Bernie Sanders): https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-hawley-introduce-bill-capping-credit-card-interest-rates-at-10/

- Research Shows Interest Rate Caps Harm Consumers, Limit Choice (Consumer Bankers Association): https://consumerbankers.com/press-release/what-they-are-saying-research-shows-interest-rate-caps-harm-consumers-limit-choice/

- Trump urges credit card companies to slash interest rates to 10% for one year (CBS News): https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-urges-credit-card-companies-to-slash-interest-rates/

- Bankrate's 2025 Credit Card Debt Report (Bankrate): https://www.bankrate.com/credit-cards/news/credit-card-debt-report/

- See how much prices have increased since 2020 — in one chart (CNBC): https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/18/cumulative-inflation-since-2020.html

- Latest Inflation Statistics: The Prices Rising And Falling Most (Bankrate): https://www.bankrate.com/banking/federal-reserve/latest-inflation-statistics/

- Groceries costly for many Americans despite slowing inflation (NewsNation): https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/your-money/inflation-grocery-prices-housing/

- The Employment Situation - December 2025 (Bureau of Labor Statistics): https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

- Employers added 50,000 jobs in December, capping a year of weak hiring (CBS News): https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jobs-report-december-2025-economy-trump-hiring-bls/

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Sources:

- December Jobs Report Shows Softening Labor Market (CNBC): https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/09/jobs-report-december-2025.html

- Supreme Court Holds Off on Trump Tariff Ruling for Now (CNBC): https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/08/the-supreme-court-may-rule-friday-on-trumps-tariffs-heres-whats-at-stake-for-the-economy.html

- Renee Nicole Good: Mother Shot and Killed by ICE in Minneapolis (CNN): https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/us/renee-nicole-good-minneapolis-ice-shooting-hnk

- Russia Strikes Western Ukraine with Oreshnik Ballistic Missile (CNN): https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/europe/russia-ballistic-missile-strikes-ukraine-intl-hnk

- Bulgarian Diplomat Nickolay Mladenov Will Head Gaza Peace Board (Euronews): https://www.euronews.com/2026/01/08/bulgarian-diplomat-nickolay-mladenov-will-head-gaza-peace-board-netanyahu-says

- EPA Moves to Roll Back Endangerment Finding (Sierra Club): https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/epa-moves-roll-back-endangerment-finding-threatening-climate-action

- Trump Executive Order Targets State AI Laws (Latham & Watkins): https://www.lw.com/en/insights/ai-executive-order-targets-state-laws-and-seeks-uniform-federal-standards

- Physical AI in Spotlight at CES 2026 (PBS NewsHour): https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/a-look-at-the-new-technology-announced-on-day-1-of-ces-2026

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