Middle-class suburbanites selling their blood plasma to get by. Small businesses reel from tariffs, brace for spiking oil prices

Pressure is starting to show up in places people do not usually look first, and the numbers behind it suggest households and small businesses are both getting pulled tighter at the same time. Middle class Americans are selling plasma to make ends meet while small businesses are dealing with rising …

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