american families are having trouble keeping up. also spending could go further up we have more also on why bill haggerty is fed up. welcome, everyone, i am neil cavuto. potentially history repeating itself. let s begin with jackie on more. hello, that s right. many americans are asking that question. am i better off than i was four years ago? 35% say that they are not, that they are having a difficult time eating the demands of housing and food in health care, transportation, childcare, pretty much everything else, coming from the brandeis university study based on almost 100,000 households. the last government report told us that the overall inflation rate is 8.5%, dropping slightly from the previous month, concerned that inflation is going to remain at a high level for a longer time than previously expected, and that is why jerome powell indicated that he had to be more aggressive on interest rates when he spoke in jackson hole. it is true that the wages are rising, but